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Encke

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Encke (German) [ˈɛŋkə]
n
(Biographies / Encke, Johann Franz (1791-1865) M, German, SCIENCE: astronomer) Johann Franz. 1791-1865, German astronomer, who discovered Encke's Division in the outer ring of Saturn


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If all goes well -- not a given considering that another bear at the same zoo was suspected of having eaten her cubs -- Vera will emerge from her hideout with her progeny in three or four months, director Dag Encke said.
One candidate is a fragment of the short-period Comet Encke which is the parent comet of the annual Beta Taurids meteor shower.
When their mothers rejected them, zoo director Dag Encke - mindful that Knut's abnormal identification with humankind has made him a miserable, confused, depressed freak - decided to let nature take its course.
 
 
 
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