dione
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1. dione - Noun
2. Dione - Proper noun
Meaning
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
A surname from French
(Greek mythology) Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
(astronomy) A moon in Jupiter system, Solar System; The fourth largest moon of Saturn.
dione (plural diones)
(organic chemistry, sometimes in combination) diketone
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Images from this and subsequent flybys showed that Rhea's streaks in fact are tectonically formed ice cliffs (chasmata) similar to those of Dione.
An active member of Dione Baptist Church, she volunteers with Meridzo Ministries’ Shekinah Village Youth Camp, Relay for Life, Cumberland Tourism and the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum.
Celebrating half a century in Colombia, Dione and Paul Gervis made a commitment to a lifestyle and friends in the tropics.
Kamp, pg. 55 He compares Dione Lucas ' cooking show and school with Beard's, noting that their prominence during the 1950s marked the emergence of a sophisticated, New York-based, nationally- and internationally-known food culture.
Tethys and Dione are hundreds of times more massive than their "escorts" (see the moons' articles for exact diameter figures; masses are not known in several cases), and Saturn is far more massive still, which makes the overall system stable.
While Saturn's mid-sized moons Dione and Tethys are not close to an exact resonance now, they may have been in a 2:3 resonance early in the Solar System's history.