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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Canis Minor used when naming stars, such as α Canis Minoris.
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PRO´-CY-ON, α _Canis Minoris_, "the foremost dog."
A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904
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The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) observed Saturn atmosphere occultations of the stars alpha Orionis, alpha Canis Majoris, and alpha Canis Minoris, otherwise known as Betelgeuse, Sirius, and Procyon.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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