Copernicus (disambiguation)
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Copernicus may refer to the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543).
Copernicus may also refer to any of the following:
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[edit] Memorials
- 1322 Nicolas Coppernicus, Born in the United Kingdom
- Copernicus (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
- Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 2 (the "Copernican"), Op. 31, composed in 1972 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Copernicus' birth
[edit] Astronomical instruments
- OAO-3 Copernicus, an Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (X-ray and UV) launched on 21 August 1972
[edit] Persons and characters
- Copernicus (musician), an avant-garde musician
- A dog in the movie Back to the Future Part III owned by "Doc" Brown
[edit] Academic institutions
[edit] Other use and spellings
- Kopernikus, a joint initiative of the European Commission and European Space Agency.
- Copernicia, a genus of 24 species of palms
- Copernicus (game), a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by 38 Studios
- Copernicus Foundation, a non-profit organization in Chicago
- Copernic Desktop Search, a desktop search engine
- Copernic, the company that produces Copernic Desktop Search
- Kopernik Space Center, an observatory in Vestal, New York
- DFS-Kopernikus, German TV satellites of the 1990s
- Copernicus Airport Wrocław, Airport at Wrocław, Poland
- Copernicus (yacht)
- Copernicus (film), a 1973 Polish film
- Copernicus Interchange Technology, a Dutch Systems Integrator
- Copernicus, a Shuttlecraft in Star Trek series
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