Benji has produced and executive produced several films, including: Michael Mayer's The Seagull (starring Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss, Corey Stoll and Soairse Ronan), Maya Forbes' Infinity Polar Bear (starring Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana, executive produced by J.J. Abrams); The Runner (written/ directed by Austin Stark, starring Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson, Connie Nielsen, and Peter Fonda), Tony Kaye's Detachment (starring Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, James Caan, and Lucy Liu); 2012 Sundance Film Festival Opening Night Film, HELLO, I MUST BE GOING (directed by Todd Louiso; starring Melanie Lynskey and Blythe Danner); 2010 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winner HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE (directed by Josh Radnor; starring Radnor, Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara); Werner Herzog's MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? (starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, and Chloe Sevigny); Alex Cox's REPO CHICK (starring Jaclyn Jonet and Rosanna Arquette); 2009 Sundance Film Festival darling PETER AND VANDY (directed by Jay DiPietro, starring Jason Ritter and Jess Weixler); and Paramount Pictures' HOMECOMING (directed by Morgan J. Freeman, starring Mischa Barton).
Before joining Paper Street, Benji spent six years working in the world of international high finance for Bear Stearns. While at Bear, he worked in a strategic proprietary group that invested capital into emerging markets using equities, futures, currencies, and options. Familiar with the hedge fund mold, he has extensive experience leveraging capital and managing risk to maximize return for shareholders. From 2003 to 2007, Benji developed an extremely successful track record for investors, averaging an astounding 35% or better annual return on investment.
Benji graduated from Tulane University and lives in New York City.


With opening night having come to pass, the Washington Captials can count two major prospects in the professional level now. Heavily-touted prospects Andre Burakovsky and Evgeny Kuznetsov played for the Capitals on opening night of the 2014-15 season against the Montreal Canadiens, with Burakovsky picking up the Capitals first goal of the season.
At the draft, meanwhile, the Capitals added a few high-risk, high-reward types to their ranks. Talent seems to trump all in the Capitals system, but should even one or two pan out, like Jakub Vrana, the team can count the 2014 NHL Draft a success.
The aforementioned Burakovsky is a smallish, flashy Swedish player who spent the 2013-14 season lighting up the OHL. If it was not clear that the young winger was ready for the big time before his jump to North America, his 41 goals and 87 points in 57 games for the Erie Otters made that crystal clear. He should be a Calder Trophy front-runner.
After splitting time between the Hershey Bears of the AHL, where he posted three goals and six points in 16 games, and Reading Royals of the ECHL in 2013-14, posting five goals and 13 points in 14 games, Stanislav Galiev was one of the cuts made by the Capitals in training camp. He will spend the 2014-15 season with Hershey.
Chris Brown, brought in via a trade with the Arizona Coyotes last year, had quite the 2013-14 season. He started off in Portland, registering 35 points in 51 games, got a six game stint with the Coyotes, was traded to Washington and then split time between the Capitals (six games) and Hershey (12 games). He can score on the lower levels, but he is running out of time to prove he can score on the NHL level.
Blessed with good size at 6'4, Zach Sanford will begin his freshman year at Boston College coming off a solid 2013-14 campaign with the USHL's Waterloo Blackhawks. With good reach and hands for his size, he is an intriguing prospect. His skating is still a work in progress, but with size like that, he has got definite upside.
Aside from being the first Australian-born player to be drafted, Nathan Walker had a decent rookie year with Hershey in 2013-14, posting five goals and 11 points in 43 games. Walker is an interesting case, he has made some great plays in limited time with the Capitals organization, thrown a devastating hip check or two, but has not managed to put it all together. He will get another chance to make an impact in Hershey during 2014-15.
Like Burakovsky, Kuznetsov is a foreign-born player with a boatload of hype. The 26th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Draft, Kuznetsov finished up with Traktor Chelyabinsk of the KHL last year, posting eight goals and 21 points in 31 games. He is an excellent skater and does things with the puck few can even imagine. He and Burakovsky are both looking to make a big impact in 2014-15.
He might not be the flashiest player in the system, but Chandler Stephenson is highly valuable as a prospect. He plays a strong two-way game and displays great awareness on the ice. Stephenson inked his three-year entry-level contract with the Capitals in the summer and will suit up for the Hershey Bears for the 2014-15 season.
Thomas Di Pauli, a fourth round pick in 2012, is set to return to the University of Notre Dame for his junior season after a very disappointing sophomore year in 2013-14. He posted just three goals and five points in 26 games, though he was a surprise pick for Team USA at the World Juniors. He has shown promise as a potential fourth-line energy forward, but will need a strong year at Notre Dame to rise up the organizational ranks.
The 2013-14 season for Michael Latta was one of hope. The 23-year-old center spent the bulk of the year in Hershey, picking up 14 goals and 34 points in 52 games while showing a good ability to win faceoffs and play defense. If he can continue to build on his offensive game, look for him to add to his 17 career games with the Capitals.
After finishing his junior year with the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he registered 12 goals and 31 points in 36 games in 2013-14, Caleb Herbert had had a seven game cup of coffee with the Hershey Bears and is expected to contribute once again to Hershey in 2014-15. He displays a solid two-way game and could be a future bottom-six contributor.
Starting his freshman year at Providence College, Brian Pinho is coming off an impressive 2013-14 campaign with the Indiana Ice of the USHL. His 28 goals and 56 points in 59 games certainly raised a few eyes and the sixth-round pick is already earning sleeper talk among Capitals fans. His freshman year could be the next big stepping stone in his path up the organizational ladder.
Shane Gersich and Steven Spinner are very similar players, 5'11 centermen who are considered explosive skaters with good shots. Both will play for the Omaha Lancers of the USHL in 2014-15 before making the jump to the collegiate level in 2015-16 with the University of North Dakota and Nebraska-Omaha, respectively.
Travis Boyd continues the trend of 5'11 centers with good offensive skills and is quickly being thought of as a diamond in the rough after an impressive development camp with the Capitals. He will return to the University of Minnesota for his senior season, looking to close with a strong campaign before making the jump to the pro level.
The aforementioned Vrana, taken with the 13th overall pick in 2014, is a highly skilled winger. He does not have very good size (5'11) but brings dynamic offensive ability to the table, possessing a quick release and good puck skills. Vrana might be a year or two away from the NHL, but he will certainly have a lot of eyes on him until then. He will return to Linkoping of the SHL for the 2014-15 season.
Riley Barber has shot up the ranks since being selected 167th overall in 2012. The feisty winger has proven himself to be a leader while having a dynamite career with the Miami Redhawks. In the Redhawks' first year in the NCHC, Barber was outstanding, posting 19 goals and 44 points in 38 games. He has got great potential as a two-way scoring winger and could see time with Hershey starting in 2015-16.
With a 6'1 frame and a willingness to drop the mitts, Austin Wuthrich is an interesting prospect. He is set to start his senior season with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He is tenacious and uses his size well, but he has shown a limited offensive game so far. He has got potential as a bottom-six grinder, but could grow into more of a scorer with a strong showing in 2014-15.
Garrett Mitchell, selected way back in the 2009 NHL Draft, might be running out of time with the Capitals. The 23-year-old is back for his fourth season in Hershey but has not shown much since his 30-point season back in 2012-13. He has got fourth-line potential, but he needs to show more if he wants to stick with the Capitals going forward.
Kevin Elgestal is a 6'1 Swedish winger who was taken with the 194th overall pick in the 2014 NHL Draft. He has spent the majority of his time on the draft radar as a part of Sweden's Frolunda junior squad and has experience at the U18 Worlds and Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament. He will return to Frolunda for the 2014-15 campaign.
Connor Carrick seems to be the top defensive prospect in the system for the moment, but he will spend the 2014-15 season with Hershey. While he does not have good size (5'11), he is very good on the rush and has a future with the Capitals as a possible second-pairing offensive defenseman. He still looks a little lost at times, but could be ready to challenge for a spot in the NHL in 2015-16.
Right behind Carrick is 2013 draftee Madison Bowey. The second-round pick has good size (6'2 203), impressive leadership abilities (he was named captain for his junior team, Kelowna) and has stood out in junior. He has strong two-way abilities, showing good speed and strength. He still needs to figure out when is the right time to jump into the rush, but the skills are definitely there.
Nate Schmidt spent the 2013-14 campaign between Hersey and the Capitals, logging 29 games with the big club while posting two goals and six points. In 2014-15, Schmidt looks like a strong candidate to stick for the long-term. Like seemingly everyone in the Capitals system, Schmidt is an offensive-minded defender with very good skating ability. He still has some gaps in his defensive game, but he has a promising future in Washington.
The 2014-15 season might be make-or-break for Patrick Wey. The 6'3 defenseman made his NHL debut last year after playing in the ECHL, but was returned to Hershey and subsequently hurt. He has the makings of a decent bottom-pairing defender, using his size and strength to make him effective. With the plethora of puck-movers in their ranks, the Capitals could use a guy like Wey in the mix.
The possible sleeper of this group, Christian Djoos had a strong World Junior Championship effort and followed that up by being promoted to the top-pairing for Brynas of the SHL. In 2014-15, he looks to take on a more prominent role with Brynas. Despite his slight 6'0 frame, Djoos does the little things well. He has the makings of a quiet, steady defenseman.
The Capitals may have found a warrior in Cameron Schilling, playing in 70 games for the Bears in 2013-14. At 6'2, he has shown a developing physical game and likes to muck it up – he racked up 89 penalty minutes in those 70 games. He owns a heavy shot, but his ticket to the NHL will be his physical game. If he can continue to develop that mean-streak, there could be a place for him on the Capitals bottom pairing.
Medicine Hat Tigers defenseman Tyler Lewington has the makings of a sleeper, having been drafted in the seventh round of the 2013 NHL Draft. At 6'1, he possesses adequate size and plays a fairly physical game. But it is his burgeoning offensive skills that have grabbed the attention of those in the Capitals organization. His 38 points in 2013-14 were a career-high. Another jump in 2014-15 could see him turn some heads.
Blake Heinrich and Garrett Haar are both USHL graduates and have been a part of the Portland Winterhawks, though both are on different paths. Heinrich will begin the 2014-15 season as a Winterhawk, gaining his first junior experience. Haar, who spent two years in college with Western Michigan, spent the 2013-14 season with Portland. Both are smaller, offensive defensemen who have shown strong production throughout their careers. Haar has battled injuries, but will get a chance to stand out with the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL.
Showing an underrated ability to move the puck, Patrick Koudys stands out for his NHL-ready frame. At 6'2 and over 200 pounds, he is already bigger and stronger than most of his competition on the college level. He also shows strong leadership skills, being named captain of his Penn State squad. He will return to the Nittany Lions in 2014-15 for his senior season.
The Capitals may have found their next goalie of the future in the second round of the 2014 Draft in Vitek Vanecek. Small, but quick, Vanecek is incredibly athletic and capable of making the highlight-reel save. He is a bit raw, but with his quickness and glove hand, he certainly has a tantalizing skill set. He plays in the Czech league currently and should remain there for the next couple of seasons before making the trek to North America.
After a 17 game stint with the Capitals in 2013-14 that saw him go 6-5-5, Philipp Grubauer returns to Hersey to take over the starting role. He is technically sound and above average as an athlete, but is still learning to play against better competition. Expect him to seriously challenge for the Capitals starting job beginning in 2015-16.
Former Michigan Tech standout Pheonix Copley impressed at the Capitals rookie camp earlier in the summer, but was sent back to Hershey for some seasoning. He has great size at 6'3 and could earn himself the backup job in Hershey depending on the health of Ed Pasquale. His stock has taken a sharp tick upward and he could sneak back onto the radar with a strong year in Hershey.
Pasquale, the 23-year-old who spent 2013-14 with St. John's of the AHL, is back in the fold again with Hershey in 2014-15. He is currently on the injured list, but when he comes back, the 6'3 netminder should compete for a backup spot. He uses his size well, playing big in net, but needs to work on making stops when pressed to move side-to-side.
Rounding out the goaltending pool is Brandon Anderson, a free agent signing from 2010 who has spent the past two seasons playing for the Reading Royals of the ECHL. The 22-year-old will push for starts in the AHL, but has an uphill battle in a deep pool of goaltenders.


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MPP discusses Joe Biden's run for President, Julian Assange arrest, Superdelegates, The DCCC's new ban, public banking and joining two new alliances
On this month's call we discussed Joe Biden's vacuous run for president and how the DNC has saved Americans the trouble of voting by pre-selecting him (how thoughtful of them!). Then shared how the Democrats have given themselves the power to reactivate the super-delegates and the chaos ensuing from the DCCC's new ban on campaign contractors working with progressive challengers. We discussed Julian Assange's arrest and how the Democrats are racing Trump for the privilege of criminalizing journalism (it is too great an honor for one plutocrat alone). MPP steering committee member and Public Banking Institute staffer Suzanne O'Keeffe gave us a special presentation on the great strides being made towards public banking.
We voted on whether to join two alliances that we've been invited to. The first is whether to join the Grand Alliance to Save the Postal Service, which the establishment parties are trying to privatize. The second is whether to join youth climate activists in the Last Chance Alliance, dedicated to halting all fossil fuel extraction in California, the world's fifth largest economy, and replacing it with renewable energy.
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…and currently undecided about how best to tackle it.
Note that much of what is and might be covered in this Section may duplicate what appears in other Sections.
Comments are invited by anyone reading this. In fact, the expectation will be that this interactive element will constitute the major part of this Section.
Notwithstanding this, we are currently creating Technical Topics around Consultative Selling and about Networking and about Social Media. Our view is that all this technical wizardry does not change the amount of work available in any material way but it does change who gets it.
Clearly – in all its forms – the dominating force in Selling is Networking – it's all about being face to face with buyers and having a professional product that has appeal and currency.
We differentiate Selling from Marketing – in that Marketing is about working out what to do and selling is about doing it. This might throw up some inconsistencies and/or duplications.
It's all about what works and what does not work – but the ground in between can often prove fruitful under certain circumstances.
Make your list carefully and correctly of selected targets.
See if you can ask for and generate good contacts through people you know.
Send real letters to them.
Email them – although this medium is less effective than hitherto due to volume and irrelevance.
Always follow up by phone.
Get in the media – articles or writing a book or platform appearances.
Go to conferences, exhibitions. (Get a guest list. Study it. Ask a question).
Note what your competitors do – particularly the successful ones.
Being good at what you do – and with some reputation or good evidence to support it – is the best selling tool. It gets you repeat business – often even without trying!
Identify 500 (Why not?) targets, feed them into a database (or, preferably, a good CRM system) and write to them in batches of 50 per day.
Follow them ALL up within five working days of despatch.
What you want is a meeting but what you'll get will nearly always be something different and mostly nothing. What you need to finish up with are continuously changing and updated stories written into your database of your 500 possible sales targets, including intermediaries.
You will accumulate information. Much of it, you will be able to use at some time and in some way. You will gradually make contacts and build a practice. You will be continuously surprised at where work comes from.
What has not changed is the excess of supply over demand in professional services in the UK – although the quantum of the excess does change.
… particularly for those with no sales or similar backgrounds – but the nearer you get to the ideal the more it will work for you. As an Interim Manager, you need to make the running. You need to be in control of your own working life. Those who say that this approach does not work – tell us what works better. Adopt the attitude that if it is not working it is you who are not doing it properly (properly means quality and volume and non-invasive persistence ). You also need some luck.
Constantly looking outwards for opportunities which may not be instantly recognised as opportunities.
Keeping a balance in your life. If running your own business becomes an all-consuming obsession (particularly if you are not making enough money) and you have no time for anything else, your performance will deteriorate.


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Yuuki Unabara
Ippei Amanokawa
Shunta Amanokawa
Tousaku Arai
Harry Badson
Tokuzou Kanemoto
Kaori (The Rebirth of Buddha)
in: Solar System, Planets
Location: Solar System
Star: Sun
Moon: Luna
Ruler: The President
Member of: Exofleet
Strongest Warriors: Jusice League, Sailor Senshi
Inhabitants: Humans, Animals, Dinosaurs (extinct)
Visitors: Aliens
Orbital Period 365 Days
Final State: still holding
Earth (also called the Real World) is the third planet from the Sun in its Solar System in the Milky Way Galaxy, is a planet populated by a wide variety of native organic lifeforms, most notably, humans. This planet is one of the very few in existence that (without being colonized or modified with some form of technology) can support organic life. It is plentiful in many forms of energy sources, and different means by which to produce them.
Many Autobots in many different continuities have noted Earth's beauty and have stated that "if Earth was their home, they'd definitely take pride in it." There are many different wonders on the planet including its weather patterns, and countless systems and cycles the planet relies on to remain inhabitable.
Versions of this planet are known to exist in many dimensions within the multiverse, and it frequently becomes involved in the conflicts of the Transformers. Perhaps too frequently. Whenever something (or someone) leaves, escapes, or is otherwise ejected from Cybertron, there's a disproportionate chance it will eventually wind up on Earth.
1.1 Appearance
2.1 Parallel timelines
3 Generation One
3.1 American animated continuity
3.2 Japanese animated continuity
3.3 Marvel Comics continuity
3.4 Dreamwave Comics continuity
3.5 IDW comics continuity
4 Beast Era
4.1 Beast Wars
4.2 Beast Wars II
5 Robots in Disguise
6 Unicron Trilogy
6.1 Anime continuity
6.3 Prime
7 Transformers: Universe
8 Super INFINITY
9 The Magic School Bus
10 Sailor Moon
11 Code Lyoko
12 Bakugan series
12.1 Known Humans
13 Yu-Gi-Oh! series
13.1 Formation
13.2 Early civilization
13.3 Ancient Egypt
13.4 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
13.5 Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
13.6 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
13.7 Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL
13.7.1 History
13.7.2 Present Day
13.8 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V
14 Tenkai Knights
14.1 On Earth
14.2 Known Places
15 Space Battleship Yamato
16 The Vision of Escaflowne
17 Exosquad
18 Mouretsu Pirates
19 Climate
21 Statistics
22 Inhabitants
Features[]
The Earth appears a low-energy world enabling a proliferation of organisms for plants and animals.
Known continents and countries included Africa, Russia, the United States, China, India, and Japan.
Etymology[]
The modern English noun earth developed from Middle English ether personified as a goddess in Germanic paganism (appearing as Jörð in Norse mythology, mother of the god Thor). In general English usage, the name earth can be capitalized or spelled in lowercase interchangeably, either when used absolutely or prefixed with "the" (i.e. "Earth", "the Earth", "earth", or "the earth"). Many deliberately spell the name of the planet with a capital, both as "Earth" or "the Earth".
The earth came into existence in the beginning of time. In that era, Dark Gaia and Light Gaia came to reside on it. Following a constant cycle, Dark Gaia awakens once every couple of millions of years to destroy the earth and Light Gaia then restores it in an event known as the time of awakening. The two of them would then return to sleep in the Earth's core until they can awaken to continue the cycle.
The alien Black Doom of the Black Arms seems to have been observing the planet for aeons, as he has warped Glyphic Canyon to it over 2,000 years ago. His people's home, the Black Comet, passed by the Earth every fifty years. However, it was eventually destroyed by the Eclipse Cannon when they posed a threat to the citizens of the world.
Fifty years before the present, aboard the Space Colony ARK, Professor Gerald Robotnik was forced by the President of that time to create the Ultimate Life Form. Aided by Black Doom, they created Shadow the Hedgehog. Gerald also studied the Gizoid, Chaos, and at least one Chaos Emerald. Later, GUN invaded the ARK and either imprisoned or killed all those related with "Project Shadow". This was because of their fear of Professor Gerald Robotnik's work. Gerald's granddaughter Maria Robotnik, who had become very close to Shadow, was killed and Shadow was sent to the surface. Gerald was later found and imprisoned on Prison Island under the pretense of disappearance, and heavily implied to have been executed by firing.
The planet has recently been constantly pained by the professor's grandson, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, who also goes by the alias Dr. Eggman. It was also attacked by the monster Chaos, threatened with impact by the falling ARK, invaded by the Black Arms, nearly sucked into a giant black hole (twice), broken apart and plagued by the hyper energy organism Dark Gaia, and had its very existence in space-time threatened on multiple occasions. All disasters have been stopped by Sonic and his allies who use the powers of the Chaos Emeralds to protect the world time and again.
Parallel timelines[]
Silver the Hedgehog hailed from an alternate future where the planet has been largely destroyed by Iblis. With the help of Mephiles the Dark, he travelled back to Sonic's time. When Mephiles reunited with Iblis to become Solaris, he sought to destroy all of past, present and future existance. Sonic, Shadow and Silver transformed into their Super States and defeated Solaris. After that, the moment in time when Solaris was just born as a small flame appeared before Sonic and Princess Elise of Soleanna. She blew it out, believing that this event would be prevented from ever happening. With the sole exception of Blaze the Cat, no one remembered this negated timeline.
There is also another dimension that is home to Blaze the Cat, Marine the Raccoon and the Coconut Crew. This dimension is in close proximity to Sonic's world in the present day. Though the planes of reality do not cross, travel between the two is possible via special means such as the Sol Emeralds.
Generation One[]
American animated continuity[]
Around nine million years BC, the Earth was visited by the Transformers Starscream and Skyfire, but Skyfire was caught in a polar wind storm and separated from Starscream, buried in ice. Then, four million years BC, the Transformers' spacecraft, the Ark, crash-landed in what would become the north-western United States, entombing the robots within stasis.
Earth is home to many unusual creatures and "hidden civilizations." The underwater city of Sub-Atlantica, populated by water-breathing fish-like humanoids, gave rise to the legends of Atlantis and other sunken cities. Also, fire-breathing dragons exist naturally as late as the medieval era, though by the 20th century, they appeared to have died out. A possible descendant was the unique, reptilian creature known as the "Beast of Borneo" captured by big game hunter Lord Chumley.
The magma energy of the Earth's core is channeled by a series of green crystalline structures, which the Decepticons attempted to exploit in 1984, exposing a crystal shaft in the North Pole and tapping the core's energy (while, at the same time, happening upon and reactivating the body of Skyfire). Another unusual aspect of the planet is the natural existence of electrum, a metallic alloy that renders Transformers invulnerable when coated in it.
By the year 2005, human interaction with the Transformers had resulted in an advanced level of technology worldwide, and the foundation of the Earth Defense Command, which operates a series of space stations. Saturn's moon, Titan, was colonized, and an EDC base was established on Mars, while travel between star systems was hugely enhanced by the creation of warp-gates. Earthling Spike Witwicky became Earth's ambassador, first to Cybertron, and then to other alien worlds as, through the Transformers, humanity came into contact with other races.
Japanese animated continuity[]
In the expanded fiction of the additional Japanese-exclusive animated series, the existence of the sunken continents Atlantis and Lemuria was confirmed. Later, it was revealed that a small group of Autobot and Decepticon Pretenders crash-landed on the planet in the Stone Age. While the Autobots used their Pretender abilities to adopt the form of humans, the Decepticons assumed monstrous forms and were mistaken by early man as "demons." Finally defeating the Decepticons and sealing them away - within the pyramids of Giza, the ruins of Atlantis and beneath the Nazca Lines of Peru - the Autobots then integrated themselves into human society, serving as secret protectors who quietly and subtly guided the evolution of human society.
Marvel Comics continuity[]
The Ark crashed into Earth four million years ago. Already present, and the site of the first Transformer battle on Earth, was the Savage Land - a hidden jungle in Antarctica where dinosaurs still live. It is believed the Savage Land was created by another, earlier race of aliens. It is said Jesus was born over 2000 years ago, or so legend says, leading eventually to the holiday called Christmas. In the year 1017AD, the Autobot Navigator and his companion arrived on Earth searching for the lost Ark. Their ship landed in England and the companion would look around every few centuries, and he would be named the Man of Iron by the awed residents of Stansham; his first appearance turned the tide of a great battle.
By the 1980s, Earth was involved in a Cold War driven by the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The planet was also threatened by the international terrorist group Cobra, who was opposed by America's G.I. Joe organisation and its international equivalent Action Force. There also existed a group called S.H.I.E.L.D., an American spy organisation that primarily handled an unknown dinosaur variant, and otherwise seemed to have little prominence.
By a quirk of genetics, the odd human proved capable of wielding superpowers. The earliest known was a vigilante named Spider-Man who vanished after 1984 for unknown reasons, though he did clash with the Decepticons and caused Megatron to rethink how dangerous humans were.
The Autobot and Decepticon war would rage until 1991 before a brief lull; both sides would relocate their bases to multiple locations, and while often battling in America they would also strike in the United Kingdom, Peru, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Argentina. Responsibility for dealing with them in the States fell to the Intelligence and Information Institute, another American spy group, and their military wing RAAT. Diplomatic relations were tried early on with the President of the United States, but failed.
In 1993, the Decepticons struck Earth with overwhelming force, devastating cities and slaughtering millions, merely as a way of attracting Autobot attention. Even this was dwarfed when the Cybertronian warlord Jhiaxus blew up San Francisco the following year. The long-term impact this had on Earth is unknown.
In an alternate timeline, the bulk of the Autobot/Decepticon war moved off-world in 1990 and a small Earthforce remained to contain two duelling Decepticon factions (who later united). The Autobot base was located in Canada, where an abnormally high number of polar bears roam the wilderness; the animals have even become bold enough to approach the Autobot base.
In several alternate timelines where Unicron attacked in 2006, the Autobots were allowed to build a city on Earth and it would become a major location for scattered Autobots to regroup after Decepticon conquest of Cybertron. Diplomatic relations were strong between human and Autobot, and futuristic technoloy such as weather-control machines were gifted to mankind.
In yet another timeline, the Americas were brutally conquered after 2005 by Galvatron.
Dreamwave Comics continuity[]
IDW comics continuity[]
Earth was invaded by the Decepticons sometime during 2002, presumably for the purposes of harvesting its local resources. However, the recent discovery of Ore-13 by Starscream's team prompted the treacherous lieutenant to break protocol in an effort to rebel against Megatron.
A detachment of Autobots, led by Prowl, is also present on Earth in an attempt to prevent the Decepticons from pillaging the planet. One of its members, Ratchet, also broke protocol by initiating direct contact with three humans, who proved invaluable in gaining intelligence on Starscream's operations.
The discovery of Ore-13 threatened to make Earth the new front line in the war between the Autobots and Decepticons. Megatron carried on the standard strategem of igniting conflict between humans to weaken their kind for conquest, but Autobot interference made him escalate things drastically. The Transformers are now known to humanity - and the Autobots have temporarily withdrawn from Earth (bar a few AWOL agents), leaving it vulnerable to the Decepticons. This will not end well.
Beast Era[]
Beast Wars[]
The mysterious aliens known as the Vok chose prehistoric Earth, which they dubbed Nexus Earth, as the site of an experiment, and seeded the planet with vast amounts of raw Energon, installing a second, artificial moon into the planet's orbit and placing several devices at strategic points on the planet. Around the time of the emergence of proto-hominids, a group of Maximals and Predacons from Cybertron's future travelled back in time to prehistoric Earth, where they waged a war they dubbed the "Beast Wars," and encountered the Vok, interfering in their plans. Deciding that the Beast Warriors had contaminated their experiment, the Vok activated the second moon, transforming it into a giant laser weapon with which they planned to detonate the Energon seeded throughout the planet, wiping it clean of life. This plan was foiled by the Maximal leader, Optimus Primal, but the vast majority of the raw Energon on the planet was transformed into stable, cube form. Eventually, the Maximals returned to Cybertron with the Predacon leader, Megatron their prisoner. The only surviving Predacon, Waspinator, was left on the planet as the leader of a tribe of protohumans. Although they eventually rejected him and he too returned to Cybertron, it is unclear precisely how much influence Waspinator may have had on the evolution of humanity and their culture. Many would find this dizzturbing.
Interestingly, by the time immediately prior to the Beast Wars, Earth and its sector in space was declared off-limits by order of the Maximal High Council, and likely all information about it tightly regulated. It's unknown precisely when and why this ban was initiated. However, it related to the events in BWII.
(Note: in the Japanese dub of Beast Wars, the Transformers referred to the planet they were stranded on as "Energoa", before they realised it was prehistoric Earth.)
Beast Wars II[]
A future version of Earth was later visited by Maximals and Predacons under the command of Lio Convoy and Galvatron, respectively. At first known only as "Gaia", the world was known to have two sentient inhabitants, a girl named Artemis and her companion Moon. Although the presence of what seemed to be a decimated Tokyo Tower suggested that Gaea was Earth, it was not fully confirmed until release of the Robot Masters toyline's version of Lio Convoy, the bio which revealed that Earth had been devastated by mankind's tampering with the power source known as Angolmois energy.
Robots in Disguise[]
Thousands of years ago, the Autobot high council hid Fortress Maximus on Earth. The many parts of its activation mechanism, such as O-Parts, the Orb of Sigma, and Cerebros, came to be located within relics left behind by ancient human civilizations. In the 1940s, a crew of Autobots was dispatched to the planet to check up on things, unsuccessfully. In the present day, the biggest problem facing humanity is a lack of access to energy. Doctor Onishi is the world's foremost expert on locating and cataloguing new energy sources, and during the course of his work he located Fortress Maximus and some of the o-parts. Cue the second biggest problem for humanity, as their top energy expert is kidnapped by a giant robot hand.
Unicron Trilogy[]
Anime continuity[]
After the first defeat of Unicron, Earth was chosen as one of the planets to receive a Cyber Planet Key, which would have reformatted the planet into a Transformer colony. However, the colony ship Atlantis, also carrying the Omega Lock, crashed onto the planet before it could begin its mission.
(Note: A lost undersea city was found earlier during the Armada series, one powered by a Mini-Con from the Air Defense Mini-Con Team. A hologram described that the civilization had been quite advanced, but was destroyed by its own power. The human children deemed this city to be Atlantis, but it is possible that it was a completely different civilization.)
Some time later, when the Mini-Cons fled Cybertron to escape being used as tools, their ship came out of warp above Earth. Impacting onto the planet's moon, the Mini-Con ship broke in half, sending a large chunk of the craft into Earth's atmosphere. Mini-Con storage panels were spread across the globe and the ship itself crashed onto the surface, where they laid dormant for nearly a million years. Earth's fate being tied to that of Cybertron in the Unicron Trilogy is a form of predestination. The human Rad visited Cybertron millions of years ago via a completely unexplained timeslip and encountered the Mini-Cons upon birth, releasing them from Unicron's control and pretty much sealing this fated relationship for good.
Prime[]
It is revealed at that the core of the planet Earth is not (as science would have us believe) magma, but Dark Energon. This, combined with the strange weather phenomena around the Earth lead Ratchet to suggest that perhaps the core of Earth was actually the sleeping form of the Chaos Bringer — Unicron. This is confirmed when they tuned a scanner in on the core of the Earth to monitor seismic activity and the results indicate that the quakes were coming in a steady and predictable rate. When examined closer, the waves matched that of a Cybertronian heartbeat.
The true irony lies in the fact that Cybertron, Earth's opposite in a chain of 47 planets, has Primus, Unicron's brother and arch-nemesis, as its core.
Transformers: Universe[]
Earth is a world populated by a wide variety of native organic lifeforms, known as humans. Earth's history is intertwined with Cybertron. Cybertron is much larger planet than Earth. Unicron did not have a connection to the Earth unlike Prime due to his size was too big for Earth to form around. The core of the planet Earth is magma.
After the first defeat of Unicron, Earth was chosen as one of the planets to receive a Cyber Planet Key, which would have reformatted the planet into a Transformer colony. However, the colony ship Atlantis, also carrying the Omega Lock, crashed onto the planet before it could properly begin its mission.
Some time later, when the Mini-Cons fled Cybertron to escape being used as tools, their ship came out of warp above Earth. The Mini-Con ship entered Earth's atmosphere and the Mini-Con storage panels were spread across the globe and the ship itself crashed onto the surface, where they laid dormant for nearly a million years. Earth's fate being tied to that of Cybertron in Universe is a form of predestination. The human Rad White visited Cybertron millions of years ago via a completely unexplained timeslip and encountered the Mini-Cons upon their birth by Primus, releasing them from Unicron's control and pretty much sealing this fated relationship for good.
Super INFINITY[]
Earth has a number of parallel versions of itself in the multiverse of different series (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Scooby-Doo!, One Piece, One Punch Man, Naruto, Bleach, Code Lyoko, Justice League, Ben 10, Totally Spies! and YuYu Hakusho).
The Magic School Bus[]
Earth is the third planet from the sun and is the only one that supports life. It's where Ms. Frizzle, Liz and her class live. It makes a view appearance in The Magic School Bus episode, Gets Lost in Space.
After exploring Venus, Ms. Frizzle, Liz and her class fly past Earth. Phoebe sees it to be so beautiful, and Keesha knows there's air so they can breath, and it's not too hot, or too cold. Arnold finishes by saying it's the only one that supports life. They then fly off to Mars.
In The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System, Earth is the game's classroom location, and Janet does a second report on Earth for Extra Credit.
Sailor Moon[]
Earth (地球; lit. "Globe of Land") is the third planet from the sun in this Solar System, and is currently the only planet known to support life.
In the Sailor Moon series, the Earth's moon was the home of the Silver Millennium in ancient times. The Sailor Crystal for the Earth was the Golden Crystal, which was in the possession of Prince Endymion, who lived in the Golden Kingdom. In the present day, the Earth was protected by Helios, who guarded the inner kingdom of Elysion, and Mamoru Chiba, the reincarnation of Endymion.
According to musical continuity, in ancient times Earth was also home to the kingdom of Artuka and an unnamed kingdom that was under the control of Queen Beryl prior to becoming the Dark Kingdom.
Code Lyoko[]
Earth is where Aelita, Jeremie, Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, and all the other characters live. XANA wishes to eliminate all sentient life on the planet for reasons unknown.
In Ghost Channel, XANA created a parallel world and made it to look like Earth so the Lyoko Warriors would think it was the real Earth. Many inconsistencies and problems occured in the program, therefore revealing it to be an illusion.
Bakugan series[]
Earth is the home planet of the humans. Unlike most Bakugan civilizations, Earth has no unified government, and instead has many different countries.
Technology on Earth varies. Though not as advanced as the Vestals, Gundalians, or Neathians, humans do have the capability to make Dimensional Transporters. Likewise, humanity spawned Bakugan Interspace, an artificial virtual reality. However, unlike the Gundalians and Vestals, humans do not have space-faring fleets.
Earth is the planet where the Bakugan and Cards initially landed after Naga stole the Silent Core. Earth was also one of three known sites that received the Battle Gear data from Fabia Sheen's distress call, which led to the first synthetic Bakugan.
Out of all the four seasons of Bakugan, most of the battles occur on Earth; however, the least amount of battles occurred on Earth in Bakugan: New Vestroia, whereas in the first series, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, nearly all of the battles are fought on Earth.
In the last series, Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge, most of the storyline is occurring on Earth but the settings for most of the battles are now both divided between Earth and New Vestroia because of Dan and Drago training there.
Known Humans[]
Dan Kuso
Runo Misaki
Marucho Marukura
Shun Kazami
Alice Gehabich
Julie Makimoto
Klaus Von Hertzon (now on Vestal)
Chan Lee
Julio Santana
Komba O'Charlie
Billy Gilbert
Jewls
Kosuke
Tatsuya
Michael Gehabich
Miyoko Kuso
Joe Brown
Shuuko Marukura
Mrs. Brown
Daisy Makimoto
Jake Vallory
Koji Beetle
Tri-Twisters
Bash Brothers
Yu-Gi-Oh! series[]
The Earth, also called the Human World, is a planet created along the stars and planets by first one card. It is home to millions of species of life, including humans. It is the main setting for the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! series, homes of Yugi Muto, Jaden Yuki, Yusei Fudo, Yuma Tsukumo and their friends.
Formation[]
When the universe began it split into darkness and light. As the light vanished soon, the darkness filled the universe and created everything in the world, including life. First one card was born, the front represented the human world aka Earth and the Duel Monsters Spirit World, while the darkness was theWorld of Darkness. Eventually, the stars and planets were born, including the Earth, where the humans stood at the top of all creations. Inevitably, the humans discovered the Duel Monsters, therefore, it became a touchstone to test their souls.
Early civilization[]
10,000 years before the start of the series, a perfect city known as Atlantis existed isolating it from the rest of the world. It was inhabited by Duel Monster Spirits and humans, who coexisted peacefully. They were said to have known nothing of violence. Soon after a monarch Dartz came to power, he tried to destroy the earth with an army of Orichalcos Soldiers, his father, Ironheart, opposed him. He went to a temple and requested the assistance of the Duel Monster Spirits, which they agreed to lend. After a battle known as the Battle of the Stone Wasteland, The Great Leviathan was defeated by Ironheart's army. Before his death, Ironheart sealed the doors to the Duel Monsters Spirit World, leaving behind their spirits scattered across all the world. Some were left in the Egyptian pyramids, the Greek temples, the Aztec pyramids, the Egyptian mastabas. Dartz survived, and began gathering souls to revive The Great Leviathan to destroy and reconstruct both the Earth and the Duel Monsters Spirit World in his own image
Ancient Egypt[]
3,000 years (5,000 in the English version) in ancient Egypt, Egyptians used stone tablets to seal Duel Monster Spirits and summon them to fight battles. The Egyptians harnessed the power of the Duel Spirits for use in their Shadow Games. It is implied that Duel Spirits were the basis for the Egyptian concepts of ka and ba. When the dark magic of the shadows threat to destroy humanity and the earth, Pharaoh Atem using a spell which included his name and sealed Zorc in the Millennium Ring. He gave throne of Egypt to Priest Seto, then sealed his soul within the Millennium Puzzle, erasing his own memories to keep the spell from ever being used to resurrect Zorc. The puzzle was then destroyed, scattered into dozens of pieces.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters[]
3000 years later in the present age, a young boy named Yugi Muto unlocks the spirit of the puzzle and is possessed by the spirit of the Nameless Pharaoh, who lost all of his memories from his old life. As a thank you to the spirit who saved him from bullies and gave him new friends, Yugi decided to help the spirit out and find a way to recover his lost memories and send him to the after life.
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX[]
Ten years after Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX follows a young boy named Jaden Yuki who, along with his friends, attends Duel Academy, a special institute founded by Seto Kaiba, in the hopes of becoming the next King of Games. Using his Elemental Hero deck and a Winged Kuriboh given to him by Yugi Moto, Jaden faces various challenges against other students, teachers and other mysterious beings.
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's[]
Twenty years after the events of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the earth if futuristic in the City of New Domino. The game of Duel Monsters has changed; a new addition has been introduced to the future of dueling as seen in 5D's: "Turbo Duels" which are played in giant stadiums, and duelists ride motorcycles with built-in duel equipment known as "Duel Runners". This series focuses around an aspiring duelist from Satellite named Yusei Fudo.
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL[]
It is revealed that before becoming Barians, the Seven Barian Emperors were human once in their past lives, with each of their past being connected to each ancient ruin the Mythyrian Numbers were hidden in, along with the numbers themselves and their protectors.
Emissaries from Astral World and the Barian World, Astral and Don Thousand, fought against each other on Earth. According to Jinlon, two divine lights were fighting in sky far, far away. The battle lasted for hundreds of days. Rains of fire poured down on the grounds as lightning ripped through the very Earth. Then those two lights collided and vanished. Astral ultimately emerging victorious, sealing Thousand in the Barian Sea, but brought chaos to the Earth in the process.
Present Day[]
In Present Day, the Earth was futurist in a city in the near future, Heartland City, kids and adults enjoy Augmented Reality Duels. The hero is Yuma Tsukumo. At a beginner level, he's a champion at absolutely losing. Due to a chain of events, Yuma ends up challenging the number one delinquent at his school, Reginald Kastle. His destiny is changed by a bizarre door he's seen in his dreams. When Yuma unlocks this sealed door, countless lights fly from it and scattering all over the Earth. And when Yuma comes to, he sees the mysterious entity, Astral, who came from a parallel universe, standing before him.
The Astral World and another world sent a wave of energy that collided with the Earth where Yuma Tsukumo and Astral currently are, causing time to temporarily stop and a sun from each world to appear. Dr. Faker explained that it is because the worlds are getting closer. Dr. Faker also said that something bad will happen soon because of this.
After Number 96 mastered the power of Chaos, he opens a portal to this world, the Barian World and the Astral World, then he launches powerful attacks into three worlds and an abnormal phenomenon occurs all over the world.
Later on, Don Thousand and Vector initiated their machination, sending many Fake Numbers they designed to corrupt the populace of Earth, as they were to be sacrificed so that the Barian World can be merged with Earth via Dimension-Fusing Devices. When Yuma returned from the Astral World, he started a duel with Mr. Heartland, who harmed Kite using the "Number" he obtained fromKaninja. Mr. Heartland used his "Number 1" and transformed himself into a demonic humanoid, depleting Yuma's points rapidly. However, Yuma and Astral merged into "ZEXAL III" and defeated Mr. Heartland, making "Numbers" Vector and Don Thousand created to be destroyed.
With the Earth and Barian World merging together, the Seven Barian Emperors began the final battle of the Interdimensional War with Yuma Tsukumo and his allies.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V[]
The story centres around Yuya Sakaki in Miami City in the future
Tenkai Knights[]
The Earth (Japanese: 地球, Chikyū) is one of the places where the Tenkai Knights series takes place. The four boys, who became the new Tenkai Knights, hail from Earth.
On Earth[]
Half of every episode takes place on Earth, where Guren and the others often meet Gen, who was one of their enemies on Quarton, but later joined the Corekai, and Beni, who currently joined the Corrupted.
It is also where many ancient secrets connected to Quarton are hidden, like the White and Black Dragon Keys, or the Tenkai Stone, for example. Recently, Earth has been targeted by the warlord, Vilius, seeking the portal that was possessed by the Guardians that leads to the planet.
Known Places[]
Benham City
Middle Town
Shop of Wonders
The Nash Home
The Jones Home
Benham Tower
Turtle Diner
Space Battleship Yamato[]
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The Vision of Escaflowne[]
Earth and its Moon
Earth, known as the Mystic Moon to Gaeans, is the planet of origin of Hitomi Kanzaki.
Although people on Earth cannot see Gaea, people on Gaea see both the Moon and Earth in their nightly expanse. In fact, the people of Gaea refer to Earth as the Mystic Moon, despite the two planets being virtually twins in almost every aspect from dimensions to climates. Occasionally, a pillar of light joins the two, and people and objects travel between them.
Ancient texts recount tales of a civilization that thrived 12,000 years ago on the island-continent Atlantis on Earth. In the present day, schoolgirl Hitomi lives in Japan, also on Earth.
Exosquad[]
Earth was the political center of the Homeworlds even after the colonization of the Solar System. The capital of Earth was Chicago. The capital of the Homeworlds was located on the Homeworlds Space Station.
During the First Battle of Earth, the remaining Exofleet units showed a considerable amount of resistance, but were overwhelmed by sheer numbers. After Earth surrendered, Phaeton placed General Shiva in command. Phaeton knew the large Terran population would eventually lead to problems. When Phaeton relocated his capital to Chicago and renamed it Phaeton City, he brought with him security specialist Livanus, who was appointed the Chief of Earth Security.
But, unlike the scorched earth tactics used on Venus, Phaeton could not risk inflaming the population into insurrection. Instead, the Neosapiens relied on infiltrating the resistence cells and the heavy use of propaganda, such as The Amanda Show, to control the population.
This need for restraint allowed the Earth Resistance more leeway when conducting raids and sabotage operations. Furthermore, the greater concentration of Neosapien forces gave them more access to E-frames and other materiel.
However, when a large scale revolt did occur, the Neosapien response was to use overwhelming military power to crush the cell. The largest rebellion was when Nick Tyree began the Battle of Australia. Despite the resistence lacking central coordination and heavy weaponry, the Neosapiens were forced to use Neo Warriors to shatter the resistence's cohesion. The use of Neo Warriors turned the tide in favor of the Neosapien ground forces. If not for the intervention of Able Squad, the entire Australian Resistance Cell would have been eradicated.
After failing to capture the resistence's leadership, Shiva was removed from his position of Governing General and Livia was appointed. During her reign, the first Neo Lords were bred in Antarctica, the entire race of Neo Megas was eradicated after a failed coup d'état, and Phaeton's bunker was constructed in Phaeton City. The bunker was where Phaeton kept his Doomsday Device, constructed as a form of revenge for the destruction of Mars.
When Admiral Winfield began the Fourth Battle of Earth, Phaeton ordered all garrisons to fall back to Phaeton City and to defend it at all costs. He had lost the majority of his navy during the Fourth Battle of Venus and the majority of his E-frames during the Battle of The Moon. However, despite strong resistence, the Neosapien ground forces were decimated by orbital bombardment. Additionally, resistence cells attacked military bases and forced the Neosapiens to divide their forces.
After losing the Battle of Battle Creek, Phaeton realized that he had lost the war and decided to detonate his Doomsday Device as a final act of vengeance. Able Squad, sent to disable the weapon, won the Battle of Phaeton City and killed Phaeton. With his death the war was over.
However, problems still remained as many Neosapiens vowed to remember Phaeton's legacy. Exofleet was now required to imprison thousands of Neosapien soldiers and dismantle the remnants of the Neosapien Commonwealth's military. The Drej attacked on the humans once again.
Mouretsu Pirates[]
Earth is the home planet of the Galactic Empire.
The average temperature has risen since the twentieth century, creating more arid and barren landscapes.
A Rock Shower Forecast is produced over radio signals in the style of a weather report. With an ever-changing topography, landmasses are divided into Sectors rather than countries or states. The rock shower forecast predicts the likelihood of meteorites in a given sector.
Satellites and electricity is still available in some regions for the potential of television and internet usage.
Circumference at Equator approximately 40076 km
Circumference through North and South Poles approximately 39940 km
Density 5.5 times water
Surface 510,000,000 km2
Volume 1,100,000,000 km3
Inhabitants[]
Human / Alien hybrids
Pyroxivor
Interdimensional white lab mice
Rook Blonko
Pakmar
Devin Levin (deceased)
Kraaho
Seebik
Lackno
Loovis Slerdlerk
K8-E
Nosedeenians
Earth having dolphins, white lab mice and humans as sentient life forms is a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, in which dolphins and white mice are more intelligent than humans.
According to Rook, Earth is an open system.
According to Driba, aliens are not allowed to urinate in Earth's bushes as it could lead to an environmental catastrophe.
According to Max, most of Earth's myths and legends come from alien encounters in ancient times.
According to Retaliator:
Stonehenge is a Galvan practical joke.
The pyramids were built by the Tetramands.
According to Derrick J. Wyatt, when Azmuth first discovered Earth (as he revealed he did in Solitary Alignment) he called it "Terra".
Earth is the richest source of iron in the universe.
In The Mother of All Vreedles, Ma Vreedle refers to the Solar System as the "Sol System."
In the The Frogs of War: Part 1, Rook reveals that Earth is in a key strategic location for taking over the galaxy.
Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Planet Nine | Chaos | Nemesis
Ceres | Pluto | Eris | Makemake | Haumea | Orcus | Sedna
Luna | Phobos | Deimos | Io | Sinope | Ganymede | Europa | Callisto | Amalthea | Metis | Megaclite | Himalia | Elara | Dia | Pasiphae | Lysithea | Carme | Callirrhoe | Themisto | Taygete | Adrastea | Chaldene | Harpalyke | Kalyke | Iocaste | Erinome | Isonoe | Praxidike | Autonoe | Thyone | Hermippe | Aitne | Titan | Hyperion | Enceladus | Tethys | Mimas | Dione | Rhea | Iapetus | Phoebe | Janus | Epimetheus | Helene | Telesto | Calypso | Atlas | Prometheus | Pandora | Pan | Methone | Pallene | S/2004 S 17 | Miranda | Titania | Ariel | Umbriel | Oberon | Triton | Thalassa | Larissa | Despina | Charon | Nix | Hydra | Kerberos | Styx | Dysnomia | Vanth
Juno | Pallas | Vesta | Chiron | Dactyl
Asteroid Belt | Kuiper Belt


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Paul Spoonley is a research director for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University, New Zealand.
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