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Ananke

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Ananke (ənăng`kē), in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter Jupiter , in astronomy, 5th planet from the sun and largest planet of the solar system. Astronomical and Physical Characteristics


Jupiter's orbit lies beyond the asteroid belt at a mean distance of 483.6 million mi (778.
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Ananke [ə′naŋ·kē]
(astronomy)
A small satellite of Jupiter with a diameter of about 14 miles (23 kilometers), orbiting with retrograde motion at a mean distance of 1.3 × 107miles (2.1 × 107kilometers). Also known as Jupiter XII.


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Other work in the show touched upon seriality's natural sympathies towards critiques of institutions, with Donovan Wylie's shots of the infamous destruction of Northern Ireland's Maze Prison and Ananke Asseff's full-length portraits showing middle-class Argentinians gingerly carrying firearms, obviously unaccustomed and uncomfortable with this recently accepted social behavior.
Shakespeare settles his playgoers, and also enhances the fatality of the plot, giving it something of the tense, unalterable ananke of the Greek myths.
Fate as an abstract concept, on the other hand, was called ananke.
 
 
 
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