Starship Asterisk*

Beyond wrote:Does Ferdinand ring a bell with any of you clueless Asterickians

Just getting there! But I hadn't until just now

M

Beyond, now I am totally confused
I am not familiar with the story.


Ann already wrote that she thinks its the constellation Taurus!

http://www.philnel.com/2011/09/17/
This is what I'm reading to find out more, Moonlady!

Moonlady wrote:Beyond, now I am totally confused
I am not familiar with the story.


Ann already wrote that she thinks its the constellation Taurus!

I understand the "cowardly bull" who liked to "smell the flowers" and I can connect it to "of nine" and "irregular", but I don't get the seven. I do get 24 of 27.

Rob, I feel totally useless!

Here is what I've gathered up so far:
Ferdinand (the bull) - leads to ¿Magellan? Magellanic clouds?
Possibly something about the Local Group - is one of Mag clouds the 7th of a group of nine?
Mmmm. No. Wikipedia listed about 15 galaxies in the Local Group.

Thinking cap back on.
Ah! Discover that Seven of Nine really IS a Star Trek character.
From Borg (well, after being kidnapped, I think)
That's in the Delta sector of Star Trek's organisation of the Galaxy. The Scutum-Centaurus arm to our time!

But - no light dawns!

Ah, I see that bystander may have some wisdom!
Over to you!
M

OK, I'm going to make a guess, though I still don't understand the "seven".

Ferdinand, one of the nine irregular moons of Uranus.

Yes! Ferdinand is one of the nine irregular moons of Uranus. In fact it's the seventh largest of them.

Rob

Oops! Sorry, it depends on what you look at. I was using an illustration that showed size but had no actual quantities, so it appeared to be the seventh largest. But looking at a table of masses I see that it is not the seventh but the third most massive (or fifth! *) of the irregulars. On the other hand it has the seventh largest radius, which is what the illustration was illustrating obviously. So Seven of Nine by girth, I should have said.

* Every table I look at has a different value! Some aspects of astronomy are not exact yet. Discovering that is part of the fun of a puzzle like this

bystander wrote:OK, I'm going to make a guess, though I still don't understand the "seven".

Ferdinand, one of the nine irregular moons of Uranus.

Calling bystander - are you there?! Are you going to pose a question

I just discovered I was in a race and was trying to catch up.

I am the daughter of the sky god and earth mother, and the consort of the god of the harvest.

¿consort? of the ¿god? of the ¿harvest?
Just checking.
Margarita

hmm, yes, looks the same to me, except I didn't put them funny marks in.

Although one of the older gods, I am the mother of many classical gods.

bystander wrote:Although one of the older gods, I am the mother of many classical gods.

I would have said Rhea (daughter of Uranus - sky god - and Gaia - earth mother). But Rhea was married to Cronus, definitely not a harvest god.

The only harvest GOD (not goddess) that I can think of is Roman Mars, whose cult began as a vegetation god protecting the crops. He had a fling with Venus (parents Uranus and Dione/Gaia) but she is definitely one of the classical gods.

So I am stumped.
M

Rhea is correct.

Cronus was usually depicted with a sickle or scythe, which was also the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of harvest.

Although Rhea was one of the Titans (older gods), she was the mother of Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, and Zeus, gods of Olympus (classical gods).

bystander wrote:Rhea is correct.

Cronus was usually depicted with a sickle or scythe, which was also the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of harvest.

Although Rhea was one of the Titans (older gods), she was the mother of Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, and Zeus, gods of Olympus (classical gods).

Say... weren't Hera and Zeus the parents of Hercules

Beyond wrote:Say... weren't Hera and Zeus the parents of Hercules

Heracles (Hercules) was the son of Zeus, but he had a mortal mother. Since Hera was the consort of Zeus, she was extremely jealous of Heracles. That relationship was the source of most of Heracles problems. Hera was trying to get rid of him.

bystander wrote:

Beyond wrote:Say... weren't Hera and Zeus the parents of Hercules

Heracles (Hercules) was the son of Zeus, but he had a mortal mother. Since Hera was the consort of Zeus, she was extremely jealous of Heracles. That relationship was the source of most of Heracles problems. Hera was trying to get rid of him.

I remembered the part about trying to get rid of him, but i forgot about the mortal mother for some reason. Too many years of no Hercules shows, i guess.

bystander wrote:Rhea is correct.

Cronus was usually depicted with a sickle or scythe, which was also the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of harvest.

Although Rhea was one of the Titans (older gods), she was the mother of Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, and Zeus, gods of Olympus (classical gods).

Well! You live and learn, don't you?! I was SO SURE that Cronus had NOTHING to do with harvest (apart from Dad's 'family jewels') that I didn't check it out.
Rhea is of course a moon of Saturn...
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=30927

I'll be back later with a new question.
Margarita

Ok - here is my question! Margarita

I suddenly got it! Delta Cephei!

Ann

Ann wrote:I suddenly got it! Delta Cephei!

aNN

Over to you!
Margarita

aNN

I wrote that with one hand, turning the caps lock on and off. When I had finished writing the answer, I just forgot to check how I wrote my name!

I'm going to edit it now!!!

Ann

Okay, this is my question!

















The answer is really to be found in the second picture. You get extra points if you figure out what the first picture is doing there!


Ann

Ann wrote:

aNN

I wrote that with one hand, turning the caps lock on and off. When I had finished writing the answer, I just forgot to check how I wrote my name!

I'm going to edit it now!!!

Ann

Oh, I thought you were making some very meaningful statement!
Such as 'a Natural Navigator' through puzzles small and large?!

X man Gruis - that i is hire how my tabletn writes my name ! Margarita

PS. I've just seen your question... Ooo--err.

Ann wrote:The answer is really to be found in the second picture. You get extra points if you figure out what the first picture is doing there!

What the first picture is doing there That's easy... it's there to confuse the heck out of us