Ursa Minor The tradition of naming the northern constellations "bears" appears to be genuinely Greek, although Homer refers to just a single "bear". The original "bear" is thus Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor was admitted as second, or "Phoenician Bear" (Ursa Phoenicia, hence Φοινίκη, Phoenice) only later, according to Strabo (I.1.6, C3) due to a suggestion by Thales, who suggested it as a navigation aid to the Greeks, who had been navigating by Ursa Major. In classical antiquity, the celestial pole was somewhat closer to Beta Ursae Minoris than to Alpha Ursae Minoris, and the entire constellation was taken to indicate the
Ursa Minor (album) release in the future. The band's eventual fifth album, "Dopamine", released in June 2015, had no connection to any material from "Ursa Minor". In July 2015, Jenkins reiterated this stance, stating that although the material no longer represented the band's current form, he also felt that the individual songs were so strong, that he intends on potentially releasing them online on a track by track basis. Ursa Minor (album) Ursa Minor is an unreleased studio album by American alternative rock band Third Eye Blind. Initially conceived as the second part of a double album to their 2009 release "Ursa Major",