Apollo group
Apollo group A group of asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit, but whose average distances from the Sun are greater than that of Earth; also known as
Earth-crossing asteroids. Their perihelion distances are 1.017 AU (Earth's aphelion) or less. Most Apollo asteroids are small (up to 5 km diameter) and highly irregular in shape. They are named after (1862) Apollo, the first of the group to be discovered, by the German astronomer Karl Reinmuth (1892–1979) in 1932. Apollo is a Q-class asteroid of diameter 1.4 km. It came within 0.07 AU (10.5 million km) of Earth in 1932, but was then lost until 1973. Apollo's orbit has a semimajor axis of 1.471 AU, period 1.78 years, perihelion 0.65 AU, aphelion 2.30 AU, and inclination 6°.4. Apollo can approach to within 0.028 AU (4.2 million km) of Earth's orbit and can also make close approaches to Venus and Mars. Some Apollo asteroids such as
Phaethon and
Icarus approach closer to the Sun than Mercury. The largest Apollo asteroid is (1866) Sisyphus, diameter 8 km. Other notable named Apollos include
Hephaistos,
Toro, and
Toutatis. The Apollo asteroids were once thought to be extinct cometary nuclei, but in fact Jupiter may perturb asteroids from near the 3:1 Kirkwood gap in the main asteroid belt into Apollo-type orbits. See also
Near-Earth Asteroid.
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Upholding the Statutes of Liberty
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/28/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Ranulf de Glanville (d. 1190), Henry of Bracton (d. 1268), Edward Coke (d...new procedure of the jury trial; Bracton stressed the supremacy of law...survives among lawyers because Bracton brought liberal attitudes into...
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Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Public Administration; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...represented an entirely different model of policing from the urban variant espoused by Henry Bracton (a thirteenth-century English judge and writer on English law), Henry and John Fielding (brothers who, in the eighteenth century, established a...
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`Be you never so high, the law is above you'
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 1/29/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...were, it was because the law had decreed it so and such law could be changed by Parliament. This echoed the words of Henry Bracton that "the king is under no man but under God and the law because the law makes the king". Indeed it sounds really...
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Missouri Supreme Court building's centennial ends with open house
Newspaper article from: St. Louis Daily Record / St. Louis Countian; 10/21/2008; ; 548 words
; ...Visitors will be able to see relics and displays not usually open to the public, including rare historic books such as Henry Bracton's "On the Laws and Customs of England" (circa 1257), Nicholas Statham's "Abridgment on the Law" (circa...
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Supreme Court Building in Jefferson City celebrates centennial year
Newspaper article from: Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press; 10/22/2008; ; 553 words
; ...Visitors will be able to see relics and displays not usually open to the public, including rare historic books such as Henry Bracton's "On the Laws and Customs of England" (circa 1257), Nicholas Statham's "Abridgment on the Law" (circa...
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Magna Carta and Parliament: Enduring Legacies of the Thirteenth Century.(England)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...an absolute monarch. The thirteenth-century judge Henry of Bracton stated this principle clearly: "The king himself ought...membership. During the reign of King John's son, Henry III (from 1216 to 1272), "parliament" usually meant...
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The Lengths and Limits of Natural Law
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/13/1991; 592 words
; ...it for Roman law? Hasn't that been its function in the Common Law of England for all the great expositors from Henry de Bracton to Edward Coke to William Blackstone? And why else if not to put this new nation on a moral footing did our Founding...
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Sandoz, Ellis: Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...from Algernon Sidney, Michael Harrington, John Witherspoon, John Milton, Richard Hooker, Sir John Fortescue, Henry de Bracton, and Lord Coke. Consider the following quote from John Witherspoon, who taught James Madison at Princeton...
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Louis Claiborne Dies; Was Scholarly Deputy Solicitor General
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/13/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the Emperor Justinian and Alfonso the Wise of Castile, the Magna Carta wrested from King John and the treatise of Henry de Bracton. We may question whether such a revolution, not in literature or philosophy, but in the law of property, even...
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Common and civil law? Taking possession of the English empire in America, 1575-1630 (1).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...based on the common law. Founded on ancient custom and interpreted by important writers such as Ranulf de Glanvill, Henry de Bracton, and--in the Tudor and Smart period--William Lambarde, Edward Coke, and Matthew Hale, this unique legal...
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Henry de Bracton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Corporation, 1998. Online "Bracton, Henry de," Funk and Wagnalls Multimedia...Encyclopedia, (January 17, 2001). "Bracton, Henry de," Microsoft Encarta Online...2000, (January 18, 2001). "Bracton, Henry de" Encylopedia Britannica...
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Bracton, Henry de
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
BRACTON, HENRY DE Henry de Bracton was a medieval jurist and priest whose masterful treatise on common law and procedure provided a framework for the early English legal system. Bracton's famous De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae (On the...
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Bracton, Sir Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Bracton, Sir Henry ( c. 1210–68). Bracton, ‘the flower and crown of English Jurisprudence...cathedral, where he is buried. He served during the reign of Henry III as a justice in Eyre and a justice of King's Bench...
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Glanvill, Ranulf
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...financial minister of England under henry ii. He is commonly associated with...x2013; 74, and his reward from King Henry II was a series of increasingly important...for later classics, in particular Henry de Bracton's thirteenth-century treatise...
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Bribery
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
...followed suit. The antibribery ethic was firmly set out in Henry de Bracton's great mid-thirteenth-century treatise on English...with foul redemption by a bribe. From Shakespeare to Henry Adams ( Democracy ) and Robert Penn Warren ( All the...
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