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  • Extending it out to 30 or even 50 or so light years which would then include nearest giants, Pollux - & its exoplanet "Polydeuces" (34 ly) Capella (42 ly)plus other sun-like F & G type dwarfs would be fantastic.

    32 Nearby Stars 2008

  • This ironically includes pottery representing what you simply call "Greek deities", Etruscan Pultuce 'Polydeuces' (ET Pe S.13) and Castur 'Castor' (ET AH S.7, OI G.29, Pe S.13, Vs S.21).

    What are Etruscans doing with those eggs? 2008

  • "Polydeuces" was first detected in 1993, but was not confirmed until June 16, 2006.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • "Polydeuces" was first detected in 1993, but was not confirmed until June 16, 2006.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JacobB 2010

  • In the sequence of the third image, I think it's instead visible Polydeuces and Dione and Titan, of course.

    Cassini the Artist: Shadows, Ringshine, Double Crescent Moons | Universe Today 2010

  • Fight between Polydeuces and Amycus, King of the Bebrycians; defeat and death of Amycus (1 – 97). —

    The Argonautica 2008

  • 'Twas I that saved her and snatched her from beneath thy sword at the bidding of her father Zeus; for she his child must put on immortality, and take her place with Castor and Polydeuces in the bosom of the sky, a saviour to mariners.

    Orestes 2008

  • We, the twin sons of Zeus, thy mother's sisters, call thee, even Castor and his brother Polydeuces.

    Electra 2008

  • We, the twin sons of Zeus, thy mother's sisters, call thee, even Castor and his brother Polydeuces.

    Electra 2008

  • Far from being an example of radiant perfection handing down instructions from Mount Sinai about how we should lead our moral lives, Zeus is the embodiment of raunchy behavior, seducing the mortal Alcmena, for example, by pretending to be her husband (thus producing Hercules), and raping Leda in the shape of a swan (thus producing Helen and Polydeuces) -- even having a brief fling with his gay torchbearer, Ganymede.

    Robert Brustein: Monotonous Monotheism 2008

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