Chiron (disambiguation)

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Chiron may mean:

Mythology

• Chiron the centaur, a Greek mythological character

People

• Louis Chiron, a Monegasque racing driver

Astronomy

• 2060 Chiron, a planetoid in the outer solar system
• Chiron, a supposed moon of the planet Saturn which was later found not to exist

Astrology

• Chiron is the most significant of the "centaur" asteroids. Known as "the wounded healer", it has associations to traumas and wounds or inadequacies which are incurable, but may be worked with, on their own terms, and transformed into one's greatest strengths. Some astrologers believe it is or will become the ruler of the sign Virgo.[1]

Corporations and Organizations

• Chiron Corporation, a biotechnology firm, now part of Novartis
• Chiron Photos, an agency of photojournalists

Automobiles

• The Bugatti 18/3 Chiron

Other

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• Chiron (journal), a scientific journal on Ancient History
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, The fictional planet that this strategy computer game takes place on is named Chiron.
• Chiron has been adapted for fictional works, most notably in Dante's The Divine Comedy, in which he is the chief guardian of the seventh circle of Hell, and in Goethe's Faust (Part II, Act II, scene 5, the section titled "Lower Peneios"), where Faust seeks Chiron's aid in his search for Helen of Troy and receives important lessons in his search for complete understanding.

• • John Updike's novel The Centaur is an expansion and interpretation of the story of Chiron, set in the context of 20th century small-town America. Chiron’s name, and the underlying mythology, serves to inform many of the root words connected with the ancient healing arts, e.g. cheiromancy, or the art of divining the will of the gods through the interpretation of the patterns of the hands.

• The 1982 science fiction novel Voyage from Yesteryear by James P. Hogan features a planet named Chiron.

• In the computer game Titan Quest, Chiron gives an optional quest to the player to retrieve his bow for him.

• In Robotech, the American adaptation of the 1982 Japanese animated hit The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Khyron is the name of one of the Zentraedi commanders. He becomes the central villain in the latter half of the series and ultimately commits a suicide mission, crashing his ship into the SDF-1 Macross (the character is named Kamjin in the original Japanese version).

• Chiron is mentioned in David Gemmell's book 'Dark Prince' which is loosely based on the story of Alexander the Great. Chiron tutors the young Alexander, and is said in the book to split into a man and a horse during night time, and reform into a centaur during the day.

• In the computer game Age of Mythology, Chiron is a main character who helps you throughout the plot.

• Chiron is the name of a multiplayer level in the Halo: Combat Evolved video game.

• In the Japanese Anime, YUGIOH, Chiron (the mage) is one of the Duel Monsters used by the true son of Gozaburo Kaiba, Noah.

[edit] See also

• Chyron, a running information ticker along the bottom portion of a television screen, and the name of the company that first popularized such technology
• Cheiron Studios, a legendary music studio in Sweden whose staff of talented songwriters and producers were the inventors of a style of pop music during 1990's.