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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Procyon \Pro"cy*on\, n. [L., a constellation which rises before the Dog Star, Gr. ?; ? before + ? a dog. ]
(Astron.) A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Canis Minor, or the Little Dog.
(Zo["o]l.) A genus of mammals including the raccoon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wikipedia
PROCYON (Proximate Object Close flyby with Optical Navigation) is an asteroid flyby space probe that was launched together with Hayabusa 2 on 4 December 2014 13:22:04 (JST). It was developed by University of Tokyo and JAXA. It is a small (70kg, approx. 60 cm cube), low cost spacecraft.
It was intended to flyby the asteroid 2000 DP107 in 2016, but the plan was abandoned due to the malfunction of the ion thruster.
Procyon is a genus of nocturnal mammals, comprising three species commonly known as raccoons, in the family Procyonidae. The most familiar species, the common raccoon (P. lotor), is often known simply as "the" raccoon, as the two other raccoon species in the genus are native only to the tropics and less well known. Genetic studies have shown that the closest relatives of raccoons are the ring-tailed cats and cacomistles of genus Bassariscus, from which they diverged about 10 million years ago.
Procyon is the name of the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Minor.
Procyon may also refer to:
- Procyon (genus), a genus of nocturnal mammals commonly known as raccoons.
- USS Procyon, the name of several U.S. ships.
- Procyon Peaks, a pair of mountains in Antarctica.
- PROCYON, a spacecraft that was intended to perform an asteroid fly-by.
Usage examples of "procyon".
Procyon is receding into the distance now, the blueshift mutated into red, and the white dwarf of my hopes is again invisible against the glare of its primary.
I pick a bright star, Procyon, for no reason whatever, and boresight it.
Listen to Procyon at 40 gigahertz, or all across the spectrum for that matter, and find out if it was, indeed, saying something.
Procyon logged that to memory, leadoff to a day he was sure was going to be excruciating.
This time a Peke-faced dowager was favored with information regarding her lamented dog Chan Chu who was drifting happily through interstellar spaces somewhere in the vicinity of Procyon, according to Xanadu, who evidently had a dash of humor.
Some of these, such as the insectoids of Procyon II, who had no interest in the affairs of other races, or the ichthyoids of Gamma Leporis IV, who bore Man no ill will, were not invited to the conference.
Item: The insectoid population of Procyon II, suffering from the pangs of overpopulation, had found some pretext to go to war with the humanoids of Procyon III.
By the time he reached the insectoid world of Procyon II he had decided upon different tactics.
Upon exiting back into normal space, one squadron found itself at Sirius, another at Aldebaran, and another near Canopus, while the rest reappeared strewn in ones and twos across Arcturus, Procyon, Castor, Polaris, Rigel, and assorted other stars in between.
Raccoon, a carnivorous North American mammal, Procyon lotor, extinct in the wild since 2250, reintroduced to the Woodrow Roosevelt Culturological Habitat in 2518.
Yet it exists like the Trojan horse, lacking only its complement of latter-day Acheans to threaten the Procyon peace—" "We've discussed this before," broke in Bright.
Well, the big news that week would be the arrival of a loaded immigrant ship from Thetis of Procyon, a planet whose ecology had been wrecked beyond repair in a few short generations by DDT, hydraulic mining, unrestricted logging, introduction of rabbits and house cats and the use of poison bait to kill varmints.
The old fellow tends to fall asleep and great tact is required to keep from irritating or humiliating Guz, neither of which temper keeps Procyon operating smoothly.
Since the Procyon rode out to the Moon and back through the Leonid meteor shower without a dent, the whole shipyard has been so crowded with orders I couldn't turn round quickly, and he's grown a head as big as Jupiter itself.
Over the next fifteen years, devious politicking, strikes, ultimatums and power plays by nervous administrators on the other Systems - Altair, Capella, Betelgeuse and Procyon - were frequent: each Star determined to have equal safeguards against alien incursions.