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Dear Laban (anag) — star in Taurus
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aldebaran
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Aldebaran is a proposed air-launched microsatellite launch vehicle testbed studied by CDTI , CNES and DLR for a future launcher capable of lifting up to into Low Earth Orbit .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bright star in Taurus, late 14c., from Arabic Al Dabaran "the follower" (of the Pleiades, which rise shortly before it does), from dabara "he followed."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aldebaran \Al*deb"a*ran\ ([a^]l*d[e^]b"[.a]*r[a^]n), prop. n. [Ar. al-debar[=a]n, fr. dabar to follow; so called because this star follows upon the Pleiades.] (Astron.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. ...
Usage examples of aldebaran.
Aldebaran III, a bitter place until Earth weather technicians and Earth civil engineers had carved a foothold for hungry Earthmen to find homes.
Sun Year 81 With two remaining cruisers, Capella and Aldebaran, Kwan reaches the small halo iceball he names Janoort.
Quin might have been born on Halo Station if the old Aldebaran had been a faster ship, but he had come prematurely while they were still in space, six months out from Cotopaxi High and weeks before they found Janoort.
Before the Aldebaran took off, she let Kerry and him come aboard to see her cabin.
Her mother bent to tell her the station was going to be an exciting new home, but she stood sobbing, watching until the last crewman had gone aboard and the valves had clanged shut and the Aldebaran was gone.
Two years had gone and he was nine before the Aldebaran got back with letters from her.
The relief ship arrived at last, still the old Aldebaran, Captain Tetsu Jensai now in command.
The Aldebaran was there two weeks, unloading cargo and taking on reaction mass.
The next arrival of the old Aldebaran was delayed again, this time by an engine failure in space.
Looking out, he could see the lights around the Aldebaran, still taking on reaction mass.
She had three times the acceleration of the old Aldebaran, her flight time only four months.
I was born on the Aldebaran, three weeks before she got to Halo Station.
In his childhood what fascination there had been in the words macaroon, and Spaniard, and Carinola, and Aldebaran, and Mr.
Arcturus, or Aldebaran, or whatever the blazing luminary may have been, with all his revolving worlds, sailed uncared-for down the firmament.
The heavens declare the glory of the Oriental astronomers, as Algorab and Aldebaran repeat their Arabic names to the students of the starry firmament.