Aurora

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Aurora most commonly refers to:

• Aurora (astronomy), a glow in the sky seen at polar latitudes
• Aurora (mythology), the goddess of the dawn in Roman mythology

Aurora may also refer to:

Contents 1 Arts 1.1 Literature 1.2 Music 1.3 Visual media 2 Places 2.1 Australia 2.2 Canada 2.3 Guatemala 2.4 Italy 2.5 New Zealand 2.6 Philippines 2.7 South Africa 2.8 South Atlantic 2.9 Suriname 2.10 United States 2.11 Vanuatu 3 Sciences 3.1 Biology 3.2 Computers 3.3 Space 4 Vehicles and vessels 4.1 Aircraft and aerospace vehicles 4.2 Automobiles 4.3 Marine 4.4 Railway locomotives 5 Organizations 6 Other uses 7 People with the surname 8 See also

[edit] Arts

[edit] Literature

• Aurora (comics), a superheroine in the Marvel Universe
• Aurora (planet), a Spacer world in Isaac Asimov's fiction
• Aurora Award or Prix Aurora, a Canadian science-fiction and fantasy award
• Aurora, a surrealist novel by Michel Leiris
• Aurora, a defunct science-fiction and fantasy society subsumed by 3. Zmaj
• Aurora, the airship on which Matt Cruse serves in Airborn
• Aurora (periodical), a Hungarian literary journal, published 1822-1837

[edit] Music

• Aurora (band), an electronic music project
  • Aurora (Aurora album)
• Aurora (punk band), a Hungarian punk band
• Aurora (Jean-Luc Ponty album)
• Aurora (Angela Chang album)
• Aurora (Bada album)
• Aurora (Esmerine album)
• Aurora (Nico Touches the Walls album)
• Aurora (Susumu Hirasawa album)
• "Aurora" (song), a 1941 song by The Andrews Sisters
• "Aurora", a song by Björk from Vespertine
• "Aurora", a song by Foo Fighters from There Is Nothing Left to Lose
• "Aurora", a song by Lapush from Someplace Closer to Here
• "Aurora", an orchestral tone poem by William Lloyd Webber

[edit] Visual media

• Aurora (film), a 2006 Ukrainian film
• "Aurora" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of Stargate Atlantis
  • Aurora class battleship, an "Ancient" warship in Stargate Atlantis
• Aurora Community Channel, an Australian TV channel
• Aurora Unit, organic supercomputers in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Aurora (Disney), a character in Disney's version of Sleeping Beauty

[edit] Places

[edit] Australia

• Aurora, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
• Aurora Place, a skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales
• Aurora Tower, a skyscraper in Brisbane, Queensland
• York Park or Aurora Stadium, a stadium in Launceston, Tasmania

[edit] Canada

• Aurora, Ontario

[edit] Guatemala

• La Aurora International Airport

[edit] Italy

• Aurora (Turin), an historical district in the city of Turin

[edit] New Zealand

• Aurora Cave, a cave on the South Island

[edit] Philippines

• Aurora (province)
• Aurora, Isabela
• Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur

[edit] South Africa

• Aurora, Western Cape

[edit] South Atlantic

• Aurora Islands

[edit] Suriname

• Aurora, Suriname

[edit] United States

• Aurora, Colorado
• Aurora, Illinois
• Aurora, Indiana
• Aurora, Iowa
• Aurora, Kansas
• Aurora, Kentucky
• Aurora, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Aurora, Maine
• Aurora, Minnesota
• Aurora Township, Steele County, Minnesota
• Aurora, Missouri
• Aurora, Nebraska
• Aurora, Cayuga County, New York
• Aurora, Erie County, New York
• Aurora, Nevada
• Aurora, North Carolina
• Aurora, Ohio
• Aurora, Oregon
• Aurora County, South Dakota
• Aurora, South Dakota
• Aurora, Texas
• Aurora, Utah
• Aurora, West Virginia
• Aurora, Florence County, Wisconsin
• Aurora, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
• Aurora, Taylor County, Wisconsin
• Aurora, Waushara County, Wisconsin

[edit] Vanuatu

• Aurora Island or Maewo

[edit] Sciences

[edit] Biology

• Aurora kinases, a family of kinase enzymes

[edit] Computers

• Aurora (protocol), a link-layer protocol for serial links
• Aurora Engine, a game engine developed by BioWare for use in computer and console role-playing games
• Aurora toolset, a toolkit in Neverwinter Nights
• Aurora SPARC Linux, a port of the Fedora Core Linux distribution
• Aurora, the code name for the Windows Vista version of Windows Media Player 11
• Aurora, a brand of gaming PCs from Alienware
• AURORA, a cryptographic hash algorithm developed by Sony

[edit] Space

• 94 Aurora, an asteroid discovered by J. C. Watson in 1867
• Aurora programme, a strategy of the European Space Agency
• Aurora, an albedo feature on Mercury

[edit] Vehicles and vessels

[edit] Aircraft and aerospace vehicles

• Aurora (aircraft), a possible United States Air Force hypersonic spy plane
• CP-140 Aurora, maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft of the Canadian Armed Forces

[edit] Automobiles

• Aurora (1904 automobile)
• Aurora (1957 automobile)
• Oldsmobile Aurora

[edit] Marine

• Aurora (ship), Australian Antarctic expedition vessel
• HMS Aurora, the name of ten ships of the British Royal Navy, of different eras
• M/V Aurora (1977), a ferry operated by the Alaska Marine Highway System
• M/V Aurora (2000), a cruise ship operated by P&O Cruises
• Russian cruiser Aurora, the ship which initiated the October Revolution

[edit] Railway locomotives

• Aurora, a South Devon Railway Comet class locomotive

[edit] Organizations

• Aurora flight sciences, an US aerospace company specializing in the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• Aurora (pen manufacturer), an Italian company
• Aurora Energy, an electricity company in Tasmania, Australia
• Aurora F.C., a football club in Guatemala
• Club Aurora, a football club in Bolivia
• Aurora Health Care, a health care company in Wisconsin, US
• Aurora Plastics Corporation, an American toy and hobby company

[edit] Other uses

• Aurora (name), a feminine given name
• Aurora Texas UFO Incident, an alleged UFO sighting and crash
• Sega Aurora, an arcade board
• George Washington Memorial Bridge or Aurora Bridge
• Aurora Formula One Series, the British Formula One Series held between 1978 and 1982

[edit] People with the surname

• Jagjit Singh Arora (1916–2005), Indian soldier
• Daisuke Aurora, character in Heat Guy J

[edit] See also

• Aurora Australis (icebreaker)
• Aurora Australis (book), the first book published in Antarctica
• Aurora Butterfly of Peace
• Aurora Pyramid of Hope
• Aurora Airport (disambiguation)
• Aurore (disambiguation)

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