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  • noun astronomy Genitive form of Ursa Major used when naming stars, such as α Ursae Majoris.

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Examples

  • Coyote is the fourth moon of Bear, which is the third planet orbiting 47 Ursae Majoris--Uma.

    Coyote Rising by Allen Steele John Loyd 2009

  • Coyote is a moon of Bear which orbits 47 Ursae Majoris, and is about 46 LY from Earth.

    Coyote Frontier by Allen Steele John Loyd 2009

  • The transmission is being directed at a solar system just 42 light years away from Earth with planets that orbit its star ‘47 Ursae Majoris’ UMa.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • My star is 25 Ursae Majoris NS 0932+5140 A in modern astronomical nomenclature.

    First Star On The Right, Then Straight On Til Morning 2007

  • What he ingested was so new the CDF didn't have a name for it yet, on a colony so new it also didn't have a name, merely an official designation: Colony 622, 47 Ursae Majoris.

    Old Mans War 2005

  • Four thousand people had been sent to the 47 Ursae Majoris system since 2256, aboard the four Western Hemisphere Union starships that had followed the URSS _Alabama, _ itself launched in 2070.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Which made savants perfect stewards of starships outbound to 47 Ursae Majoris; they remained awake while everyone else lay in a dreamless coma within their biostasis cells.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Two hundred and forty-five years ago, when they were only children, their fathers had made a similar leap of faith when they'd joined the conspiracy to hijack the _Alabama_ and take it to 47 Ursae Majoris.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • During all the public meetings he'd chaired as mayor, not even the long debates over the exact wording of the various articles of the Liberty Compact had raised as much ire as the ones pertaining to the flag's design, and it wasn't until Vonda Cayle presented her compromise -- the Ursae Majoris constellation, transposed upon three horizontal bars of red, white, and blue -- that all sides were satisfied.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Before he'd been picked by the Union Astronautica to command the sixth ship to 47 Ursae Majoris, he'd spent almost his entire life on the Moon or Mars, with most of his adulthood aboard one vessel or another.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

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