2 Pallas a different name, 智神星 "zhìshénxīng" (which means "the wisdom-god(dess) star"), even though the Chinese call the goddess Pallas herself by the Greek name (帕拉斯 "pàlāsī"). The stony-iron Pallasite meteorites are not connected to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas. The chemical element palladium, on the other hand, was named after the asteroid, which had been discovered just before the element. As with other asteroids, the astronomical symbol for Pallas is a disk with its discovery number, ②. It also has an older, more iconic symbol, ⚴ () or sometimes 🜍 (). Pallas has
Kirk (placename element) Kirk (placename element) Kirk is found as an element in many place names in Scotland, England, and North America. It is derived from "kirk", meaning "church". In Scotland, it is sometimes an English translation from a Scots Gaelic form involving "cille" or "eaglais", both words for 'church'. Rarely it is found in Anglicisations of Continental European placenames which originally had Dutch "kerk" or a related form. Kirk by itself is the name of two places: More usually it is an element in a compound name. The remainder of this article is a list of some of these. In Scotland In