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thalassa

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

thalassa in Greek, the sea. In Xenophon's account of the war between Artaxerxes II of Persia and his younger brother Cyrus, he relates how retreating Greek soldiers of the defeated Cyrus fought their way through the Armenian mountains and finally reached the Black Sea; when they first saw the sea, they cried out, ‘thalassa, thalassa!’

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Thalassa

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Thalassa The second-closest satellite of Neptune, orbiting between the Galle and Le Verrier Rings in 0.311 days at a distance of 50 075 km; also known as Neptune IV. It is about 80 km in diameter, and was discovered in 1989 on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

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Thalassa

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

Thalassa (Neptune IV) A satellite of Neptune, with a diameter of 80 km; visual albedo 0.06.

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Thalassa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Thalassa , in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Neptune .

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