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Chamaeleon en · PROPN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin chamaeleon (“chamaeleon”), from Ancient Greek χαμαιλέων (khamailéōn). Doublet of chameleon. Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597.

Meanings

  1. A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.
    • 2001, A. Mizuno, T. Hayakawa, T. Onishi, Y. Fukui, Dense Core Survey toward the Chamaeleon Dark Cloud Complex with the NANTEN Radio Telescope, Alwyn Wootten (editor), Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Proceedings of a Conference, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, page 146.
    • 1994, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Volumes 28-30, Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, page 50, The X-ray luminosity function has been determined so far only for the far only for the central parts of the Chamaeleon SFR by Fiegelson et al. (1993).
    • 2005, Memorie Della Società Astronomica Italiana, Volume 76, Issues 1-2, Società Astronomica Italiana, page 263, We note, however, that the surveyed area in Chamaeleon II was relatively small in comparison with the other two regions, covering only part of a cloud core to the north-west.

Deriveds

Chamaeleon II · Chamaeleon III · Chamaeleon I · Chamaeleon complex

Relateds

Chamaeleontis

Translations (18)

ko 카멜레온자리 (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · fr Caméléon (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · he זִקִּית (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · ar الْحِرْبَاء (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · kk Хамелеон (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · it Camaleonte (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · ja カメレオン座 (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · ru Хамелеон (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · no Kameleonen (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · de Chamäleon (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · es Chamaeleon (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · fi Kameleontti (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · ms Sesumpah (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · cmn 蝘蜓座 (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · ga an Caimileon (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · eo Ĥameleono (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · pl Kameleon (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky) · gl Camaleón (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky)

wikipedia: Frederick de Houtman · wikipedia: Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser