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  • noun astronomy Genitive form of Cetus used when naming stars, such as α Ceti.

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  • Tau Ceti is a yellow-orange star slightly smaller than Earth†™ s Sun. It†™ s approximately 11.9 light-years away, in the southern Constellation Cetus.

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • Of course, my alter ego managed to outsmart and then outfight Khan not bad considering Kirk is just working with a normal complement of genes and maroon him and his buff followers on a woebegone planetary outpost by the name of Ceti Alpha V.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

  • Of course, my alter ego managed to outsmart and then outfight Khan not bad considering Kirk is just working with a normal complement of genes and maroon him and his buff followers on a woebegone planetary outpost by the name of Ceti Alpha V.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

  • Of course, my alter ego managed to outsmart and then outfight Khan not bad considering Kirk is just working with a normal complement of genes and maroon him and his buff followers on a woebegone planetary outpost by the name of Ceti Alpha V.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

  • Of course, my alter ego managed to outsmart and then outfight Khan not bad considering Kirk is just working with a normal complement of genes and maroon him and his buff followers on a woebegone planetary outpost by the name of Ceti Alpha V.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

  • Ceti, which is one of the most curious of its type, varies from the second to the ninth magnitudes: we cite it as one example; hundreds of others might be instanced.

    Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883

  • Star Trek named Space Seed, which ended with Khan being banished to a planet called Ceti Alpha V. Montalban must have thought that was the end of that, but in 1982 he found himself, incredibly, reprising the role of Khan for the second

    Empire News 2009

  • We stole the blinkpacks from the research facilities at Ceti Alpha.

    365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • We stole the blinkpacks from the research facilities at Ceti Alpha.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • If she's not, Khan's main motive for revenge is gone, so is he still angry enough at what happens to Ceti Alpha V that he will want to chase Kirk 'round the moons of Nibia and' round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames and hurt him and go on hurting him?

    Lance Mannion: 2009

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