Discovery and exploration of the Solar System Discovery and exploration of the Solar System Discovery and exploration of the Solar System is observation, visitation, and increase in knowledge and understanding of Earth's "cosmic neighborhood". This includes the Sun, Earth and the Moon, the major planets including Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, their satellites, as well as smaller bodies including comets, asteroids, and dust. For many thousands of years, astronomers maintained a geocentric world view and did not recognize the existence of a Solar System. Most believed Earth was stationary at the center of the Universe and categorically different from the divine or ethereal objects
Oberon (operating system) 2002.<br> BB, BlackBox Component Builder. Component Pascal IDE from Oberon Microsystems.<br> Bluebottle OS, And again another name for the Active Object System, 2003.<br> BRAM, Block Addressable Random Access Memory, as used in the FPGA machine.<br> CP, Component Pascal. A dialect in the Oberon family most similar to Oberon-2.<br> ETHO, Oberon as developed at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich.<br> Fox, The compiler for Active Oberon, appearing in AOS (= A2 = Bluebottle).<br> LEO, Linux ETH Oberon. ETHO 2.4.3 for Linux x86.<br> LNO, Linux Native Oberon.<br> NO, Native Oberon. Oberon running on bare hardware rather than atop another operating system.<br> OLR, Oberon