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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perseus \Per"se*us\, n. [L., from Gr. ?.]
(Class. Myth.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Dana["e], who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
(Astron.) A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
son of Zeus and Danaë, slayer of Medusa, from Greek Perseus, of unknown origin.
Wikipedia
Perseus, named after the Greek mythological hero Perseus, is a constellation in the northern sky. It is one of the 48 listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and among the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). It is located in the northern celestial hemisphere near several other constellations named after ancient Greek legends surrounding Perseus, including Andromeda to the west and Cassiopeia to the north. Perseus is also bordered by Aries and Taurus to the south, Auriga to the east, Camelopardalis to the north, and Triangulum to the west. Some star atlases during the early 19th century also depicted Perseus holding onto the head of the Medusa, whose asterism was named together as Perseus et Caput Medusae, however, this never came into popular usage.
The galactic plane of the Milky Way passes through Perseus but is mostly obscured by molecular clouds. The constellation's brightest star is the yellow-white supergiant Alpha Persei (also called Mirfak or Mirphak), which shines at magnitude 1.79. It and many of the surrounding stars are members of an open cluster known as the Alpha Persei Cluster. The best-known star, however, is Algol (Beta Persei), linked with ominous legends because of its variability, which is noticeable to the naked eye. Rather than being an intrinsically variable star, it is an eclipsing binary. Other notable star systems in Perseus include X Persei, a binary system containing a neutron star, and GK Persei, a nova that peaked at magnitude 0.2 in 1901. The Double Cluster, comprising two open clusters quite near each other in the sky, was known to the ancient Chinese. The constellation gives its name to the Perseus cluster (Abell 426), a massive galaxy cluster located 250 million light-years from Earth. It hosts the radiant of the annual Perseids meteor shower—one of the most prominent meteor showers in the sky.
In Greek mythology, Perseus (; ), the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty of Danaans, was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. Perseus beheaded the Gorgon Medusa and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. Perseus was the son of the mortal Danaë and the god Zeus. He was also the great grandfather of Heracles.
Perseus was the code name of a possible Soviet spy alleged to have breached U.S. national security at Los Alamos during the Manhattan project. This name is also given to a spy at White Sands Missile Range, located further south near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Evidence for his or her existence is based on a few references in KGB archives opened (and later closed) to researchers in the early 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union. There are also a few references to Perseus in the Venona project decrypts as PERS. The identity of this person, or even whether or not they actually existed, is unknown, and many of the facts in the matter are questionable.
The first person to publicly write about atomic spy Perseus was Russian intelligence Colonel Vladimir Chikov. Starting in 1991 he wrote a number of articles in Russian periodicals that discussed Perseus. Later in 1996 he published a book with American co-author Gary Kern titled, How Stalin Stole the Atomic Bomb from the Americans (published in France in French).
The Venona project messages contain the unidentified codename "PERS." Not only is pers the linguistic root of the word Perseus but the messages suggest that PERS was a Soviet source on the Manhattan Project. In addition to this, many other individuals, including some associated with the KGB, have affirmed either the specific existence of Perseus or that there remain unidentified atomic spies on the Manhattan Project. According to Chikov, Perseus was at Los Alamos in 1943, a year before known spy Klaus Fuchs was assigned there, and in the 1950s Perseus was under the control of Rudolf Abel.
In 1999, arms-control advocate Jeremy Stone alleged that Perseus was "Scientist X", easily identifiable as MIT physicist Philip Morrison. This was a sensational claim because accuser and accused were both highly regarded within the same academic community. Morrison denied that he was a spy and pointed out numerous discrepancies between his biography and that attributed to Perseus. While Stone accepted Morrison's denial and apologized "for the unfavorable publicity", he never fully withdrew the original allegation.
US Cold War historian John Earl Haynes believes that Perseus is "a faked composite by Vladimir Chikov and the SVR combining part of the story of Theodore Hall with misdirection and distortion". citing Gary Kern
Perseus (c. 150 BC) was an ancient Greek geometer, who invented the concept of spiric sections, in analogy to the conic sections studied by Apollonius of Perga.
"Perseus" (ペルセウス) is Hitomi Shimatani's 12th single under Avex Trax. It was released on July 16, 2003. The single peaked at #8 on the Oricon charts and sold 72,000 copies.
Perseus may refer to:
Mythology- Perseus, a mythological figure
- Perseus, a son of Nestor and Eurydice (or Anaxibia) who appears in the Odyssey
- Perseus (geometer), an ancient Greek mathematician
- Perseus of Macedon, the last King of Macedon
- Perseus (constellation), a constellation in the northern sky
- Perseus Arm, an arm of the Milky Way
- Perseus Cluster, galaxy cluster
- Perseus-Pisces Supercluster, galaxy cluster chain
- Perseus molecular cloud
- Perseids, a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle
- HMS Perseus, any one of several ships of the Royal Navy
- USNS Perseus (T-AF-64), American stores ship
- USS Perseus (WPC-114), U.S. Coast Guard ship built by Bath Iron Works, delivered on April 23, 1932
- Perseus, Soviet arctic research ship (1922–1941)
- Perseus Project, a digital library
- Perseus (munition), a 900kg (2,000lb) bomb made in Greece
- Perseus (spy), a Soviet spy at White Sands Missile Range
- Bristol Perseus, an aero engine
- Perseus, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
- Perseus Books Group, a publishing company
- Operation Perseus, a British police operation
- UGM-89 Perseus, a canceled project for an American missile
- CVS401 Perseus, a supersonic cruise missile under development
- Perseus (single), Hitomi Shimatani song
- Perseus (Pantheon), a fictional character in Marvel Comics
- Perseus Clothing, a fictional shop in Grand Theft Auto IV
- Perseus Faversham, a character in the radio comedy The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
- Hero Perseus, was a special unit in the video game Age of Empires
- Perseus, code name for Dr. Howard Busgang in the TV Series Chuck
- Perseus Jackson, main protagonist of the children's book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Perseus is a 900 kg (2,000 lb) thermobaric bomb made in Greece.
According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Perseus is located within the western quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized as the White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ).
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 英仙座 (yīng xiān zuò), which means "the brave god constellation".
Perseus or CVS401 Perseus - named after the hero Perseus from Greek mythology - is a stealth Hypersonic cruise missile currently under development by MBDA in consultation with the Royal Navy and French Navy. The weapon was first unveiled at the 2011 Paris Air Show. CVS401 Perseus is primarily a supersonic surface-launched and submarine-launched cruise missile built around an advanced, agile and stealth aircraft airframe.
Usage examples of "perseus".
The fifty lines fanning out at the bottom show the destinations of the spaceships and, in some cases, the star constellations as they would appear from Perseus.
A splendid example of a true star-swarm is furnished by Chi Persei, in that part of the Milky Way which runs between the constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia.
Kingdoms of Polaris, of Cygnus, of Perseus and of Cassiopeia, and of the Baronies of Hercules Cluster.
Melanippe knows a private, uncategorizable self impossible for her ever to confuse with the name Melanippe -- as Perseus, she believes, confused himself with the mythical persona Perseus, Bellerophon Bellerophon.
I fret about Andromeda, why she and Perseus split up after all these years, what Cassiopeia's brewing.
I recalled the moment, sensed opportunity, quoted young Perseus: " 'Then how is it you cliffed Andromeda instead of your wife?
Certainly we've been spared the resentments that poisoned Perseus and Andromeda's relationship as they reached our age, and while we cannot be called innocent, surely we are rather experienced than guilty.
The point of walking up with the tide instead of flying on Pegasus, I forgot to mention, is to demonstrate Change of Pace -- the way Perseus did when he rescued Andromeda without using the Gorgon's head?
Polyeidus's observations to the contrary notwithstanding, I looked for a tempest to wreck our ship as in that remarkable sentence in Perseid where the t's of the approaching storm trip through the humming n's of inattention and are joined by furious s's to strike the vessel as Perseus struck Andromeda.
But Proetus, "in his sexist pig way," had abused her as if the child were sprung from a love affair rather than a rape, and she was not displeased when Perseus, in fulfillment of his destiny, had come through town with his bride Andromeda and the Gorgon's head not long afterward, broken in on one of her husband's "swinish revels" -- from which she'd been fortuitously absent out of disgust for them -- and turned the whole court and elite guard to stone when panicked Proetus gave the order to attack.
A multitasking expansion of Jenny Leddell's Perseus system from MIT could drive the animations.
One day the seagulls on the statues of her bouldered beaux told her that Perseus himself was winging herward, a golden dream.
Thus begins, so help me Muse, the tidewater tale of twin Bellerophon, mythic hero, cousin to constellated Perseus: how he flew and reflew Pegasus the winged horse.
Their representations had all the more weight owing to the appearance of the Macedonian ships cruising amongst the Cyclades and in the Aegean, the united action which Perseus and Gentius were taking, and the rumour that the Gauls were coming with a large force of infantry and cavalry.
Whilst Perseus was away in Thrace, Philip made a progress through the cities of Macedonia, and recommended Antigonus to their leading men, and had he lived longer he would undoubtedly have left him in actual possession of the crown.