What is "remus"

Remus is the twin brother of the mythical founder of Rome.

Remus may also refer to:

Remus is the inner and smaller moon of the main-belt asteroid 87 Sylvia. It follows an almost-circular close-to-equatorial orbit around the parent asteroid. In this respect it is similar to the other moon Romulus.

Remus was discovered several years after Romulus on images taken starting on August 9, 2004, and announced on August 10, 2005. It was discovered by Franck Marchis of UC Berkeley, and Pascal Descamps, Daniel Hestroffer, and Jérôme Berthier of the Observatoire de Paris, France, using the Yepun telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. Marchis, the project leader, was waiting for the completion of the image acquisition programme before starting to process the data. Just as he was set to go on vacation in March 2005, Descamps sent him a brief note entitled "87 Sylvia est triple ?" pointing out that he could see two moonlets on several images of Sylvia. The entire team then focused quickly on analysis of the data, wrote a paper, submitted an abstract to the August meeting in Rio de Janeiro and submitted a naming proposal to the IAU.

Its full designation is (87) Sylvia II Remus; before receiving its name, it was known as S/2004 (87) 1 . The moon is named after Remus, twin of the mythological founder of Rome, one of the children of Rhea Silvia raised by a wolf.

87 Sylvia has a low density, which indicates that it is probably a rubble pile asteroid formed when debris from a collision between its parent body and another asteroid re-accreted gravitationally. Thus it is likely that both Remus and Romulus are smaller rubble piles which accreted in orbit around the main body from debris of the same collision. In this case their albedo and density are expected to be similar to Sylvia's.

Remus' orbit is expected to be quite stable: it lies far inside Sylvia's Hill sphere (about 1/100 of Sylvia's Hill radius), but also far outside the synchronous orbit.

From Remus' surface, Sylvia appears huge, taking up an angular region roughly 30°×18° across, while Romulus' apparent size varies between 1.6° and 0.5° across.

The REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS) series are autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) made by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and designed by their Oceanographic Systems Lab (OSL). More recently REMUS vehicles have been manufactured by the spinoff company Hydroid Inc. The series are designed to be low cost and can be operated from a laptop computer.

There are several designs of vehicle, though all are torpedo-shaped vessels. They vary in size from the largest, the REMUS 6000 at , to the smallest in diameter, the REMUS 100. The midsized REMUS 600 was previously known as the REMUS 12.75, so called due to its diameter, . It was renamed to the 600 to correspond to the maximum depth it can operate at.

REMUS units were used successfully in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom to detect mines, and in 2011 during the fourth search for the missing aircraft " black boxes" from the crashed Air France flight AF447, which they successfully found. Three REMUS 6000 units were used in the AF447 search. In a video posted by Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, a REMUS 6000 is seen being used by the Colombian Navy to examine the shipwreck, now patrimony, of galleon San José that sunk in 1708 off the coast of Cartagena de Indias.

Remus is the surname of:

• George Remus (1874–1952), American lawyer and bootlegger
• Jorge Matute Remus (1912–2002), Mexican engineer
• Robert Remus (born 1948), ring name Sgt. Slaughter, American semi-retired professional wrestler
• Romola Remus (1900–1997), American actress best known for being the first to play Dorothy Gale onscreen

Remus is the given name of:

• Remus Cernea (born 1974), Romanian activist
• Remus Dănălache (born 1984), Romanian football goalkeeper
• Remus Koffler (1902-1954), Romanian communist activist
• Remus Opreanu (1844–1908), Romanian jurist and politician
• Remus Opriș (born 1958), Romanian politician and psychiatrist
• Remus Pricopie (born 1970), Romanian Education Minister
• Remus Răduleţ (1904–1984), Romanian electrical engineer
• Remus von Woyrsch (1847-1920), Prussian field marshal who fought in World War I