Arin-majlep - Revision history

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	== IAU Working Group on Star Names ==		== IAU Working Group on Star Names ==
	The name was discussed and adopted by the IAU WGSN in ~~202x~~. ~~As this~~ star is already ~~named ...~~, ~~the WGSN chose ... (not~~ to ~~apply/ to apply the~~ name ~~to a neighbouring star/ to ...) in~~ the ~~IAU-CSN~~.		The name was discussed and adopted for the star ε Aql by the IAU WGSN in 2026. The brightest star of the asterism already had an IAU-name, so that we decided to name the second brightest.

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	=== Origin of Constellation ===		=== Origin of Constellation ===

	Erdland (1914, 86) gives a list of asterisms. He says "Mejleb" is a name for Altair in Aquila which means "the big eye". The name "Ar In Mejleb" would then mean "the copy/ replica of the big eye" with a similar bad omen. The reference to the similar geometrical pattern in the sky seems to be suggestive. Yet he also gives an alternative "Oder sollte ''ar'' hier Lagunenstrand heißen?" means that the term "Ar" could also refer to the beach of a lagoon.		Erdland (1914, 86) gives a list of asterisms. He says "Mejleb" is a name for Altair in Aquila which means "the big eye". The name "Ar In Mejleb" would then mean "the copy/ replica of the big eye" with a similar and bad omen. The reference to the similar geometrical pattern in the sky seems to be suggestive. Yet he also gives an alternative "Oder sollte ''ar'' hier Lagunenstrand heißen?" means that the term "Ar" could also refer to the beach of a lagoon.

	=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation ===		=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation ===

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	'''Arin-majlep''' (also ''Arin-mājlep'' or, altermatively, ''Aṛ in Mejleb'') is an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql recorded in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia (Johnson, Mahelona and Ruggles 2026:<ref>Johnson, Rubellite K, John K. Mahelona and Clive Ruggles (2026). ''Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star'' ''Name''s (3rd edition). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.</ref> 394)..		'''Arin-majlep''' (also ''Arin-mājlep'' or, altermatively, ''Aṛ in Mejleb'') is an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql recorded in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia (Johnson, Mahelona and Ruggles 2026:<ref>Johnson, Rubellite K, John K. Mahelona and Clive Ruggles (2026). ''Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star'' ''Name''s (3rd edition). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.</ref> 394)..

			[[File:Erdland p86 hiMejleb.png\|thumb\|Mejleb highlighted in Erdland (1914).]]
	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==
	~~[[File:Erdland p86 hiMejleb.png\|thumb\|Mejleb highlighted in Erdland (1914).]]~~
	'''Variants'''		'''Variants'''

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	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==
			[[File:Erdland p86 hiMejleb.png\|thumb\|Mejleb highlighted in Erdland (1914).]]
	'''Variants'''		'''Variants'''

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	August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.		August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.
	=== Origin of Constellation ===		=== Origin of Constellation ===
	~~[[File:Erdland p86 hiMejleb.png\|thumb\|Mejleb highlighted in Erdland (1914).]]~~
	Erdland (1914, 86) gives a list of asterisms. He says "Mejleb" is a name for Altair in Aquila which means "the big eye". The name "Ar In Mejleb" would then mean "the copy/ replica of the big eye" with a similar bad omen. The reference to the similar geometrical pattern in the sky seems to be suggestive. Yet he also gives an alternative "Oder sollte ''ar'' hier Lagunenstrand heißen?" means that the term "Ar" could also refer to the beach of a lagoon.		Erdland (1914, 86) gives a list of asterisms. He says "Mejleb" is a name for Altair in Aquila which means "the big eye". The name "Ar In Mejleb" would then mean "the copy/ replica of the big eye" with a similar bad omen. The reference to the similar geometrical pattern in the sky seems to be suggestive. Yet he also gives an alternative "Oder sollte ''ar'' hier Lagunenstrand heißen?" means that the term "Ar" could also refer to the beach of a lagoon.

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	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==
			'''Variants'''

			* ''Arin-mājlep''
			* ''Aṛ in Mejleb''
			* Arin-majlep

	[[File:Arin-majlep stellarium hi.png\|thumb\|Arin-majlep asterism in Stellarium]]		[[File:Arin-majlep stellarium hi.png\|thumb\|Arin-majlep asterism in Stellarium]]
	August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.		August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.
	=== Origin of Constellation ===		=== Origin of Constellation ===
	[[File:Erdland p86 hiMejleb.png\|thumb\|Mejleb highlighted in Erdland (1914).]]		[[File:Erdland p86 hiMejleb.png\|thumb\|Mejleb highlighted in Erdland (1914).]]
	Erdland (1914, 86) gives a list of asterisms. He says "Mejleb" is a name for Altair in Aquila which means "the big eye". The name "Ar In ~~Meileb~~" would then mean "the copy/ replica of the big eye" with a similar bad omen. The reference to the similar geometrical pattern in the sky seems to be suggestive. Yet he also gives an alternative "Oder sollte ''ar'' hier Lagunenstrand heißen?" means that the term "Ar" could also refer to the beach of a lagoon.		Erdland (1914, 86) gives a list of asterisms. He says "Mejleb" is a name for Altair in Aquila which means "the big eye". The name "Ar In Mejleb" would then mean "the copy/ replica of the big eye" with a similar bad omen. The reference to the similar geometrical pattern in the sky seems to be suggestive. Yet he also gives an alternative "Oder sollte ''ar'' hier Lagunenstrand heißen?" means that the term "Ar" could also refer to the beach of a lagoon.

	=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation ===		=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation ===

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	August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.		August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.
	=== Origin of Constellation ===		=== Origin of Constellation ===
			[[File:Erdland p86 hiMejleb.png\|thumb\|Mejleb highlighted in Erdland (1914).]]
			Erdland (1914, 86) gives a list of asterisms. He says "Mejleb" is a name for Altair in Aquila which means "the big eye". The name "Ar In Meileb" would then mean "the copy/ replica of the big eye" with a similar bad omen. The reference to the similar geometrical pattern in the sky seems to be suggestive. Yet he also gives an alternative "Oder sollte ''ar'' hier Lagunenstrand heißen?" means that the term "Ar" could also refer to the beach of a lagoon.

	=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation ===		=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation ===

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	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==
			[[File:Arin-majlep stellarium hi.png\|thumb\|Arin-majlep asterism in Stellarium]]
	August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.		August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.
	=== Origin of Constellation ===		=== Origin of Constellation ===

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			[[File:Population distribution Marshall Islands.svg\|thumb\|Marshall Islands]]
	'''Arin-majlep''' (also ''Arin-mājlep'' or, altermatively, ''Aṛ in Mejleb'') is an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql recorded in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia (Johnson, Mahelona and Ruggles 2026: 394)..		'''Arin-majlep''' (also ''Arin-mājlep'' or, altermatively, ''Aṛ in Mejleb'') is an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql recorded in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia (Johnson, Mahelona and Ruggles 2026:<ref>Johnson, Rubellite K, John K. Mahelona and Clive Ruggles (2026). ''Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star'' ''Name''s (3rd edition). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.</ref> 394)..

	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==
	August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914: 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019) identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.		August Erdland was a German missionary and ethnographer who spent the years 1900-03 in the Marshall Islands, where he observed and documented cultural customs and mythology in great detail. As part of this work he recorded and identified 66 names of stars and asterisms. In his list he records ''Aṛ in Mejleb'' as an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql (Erdland 1914:<ref>Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).</ref> 79 #35), ''Mejleb'' being Altair (ibid.: #34). In their Marshallese–English dictionary Abo ''et al''. (2019)<ref>Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,</ref> identify the asterism as ''Arin-Mājlep'' and explain the name as meaning “image of Mājlep”, ''Mājlep,'' “big eye” being α, β and γ Aql.
	=== Origin of Constellation ===		=== Origin of Constellation ===

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	== Mythology ==		== Mythology ==
	mnemonic tales and cultural significance		mnemonic tales and cultural significance

			== IAU Working Group on Star Names ==
			The name was discussed and adopted by the IAU WGSN in 202x. As this star is already named ..., the WGSN chose ... (not to apply/ to apply the name to a neighbouring star/ to ...) in the IAU-CSN.

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	== References ==		== References ==

	* ~~Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,~~		*
	*~~Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).~~		*
	*~~Johnson, Rubellite K, John K. Mahelona and Clive Ruggles (2026). ''Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star'' ''Name''s (3rd edition). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.~~		*


	[[Category:Oceania]] [[Category:Asterism]] [[Category:Constellation]] [[Category:4work]]		[[Category:Oceania]] [[Category:Asterism]] [[Category:Constellation]] [[Category:4work]]

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	'''Arin-majlep''' (also ''Arin-mājlep'' or, altermatively, ''Aṛ in Mejleb'') is an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql recorded in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia.		'''Arin-majlep''' (also ''Arin-mājlep'' or, altermatively, ''Aṛ in Mejleb'') is an asterism formed of ε, ζ, and ω Aql recorded in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia (Johnson, Mahelona and Ruggles 2026: 394)..

	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==
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	* Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,		* Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). ''Marshallese-English Online Dictionary''. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/,
	*Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).		*Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Biblioth.que-anthropos, 2(1)).
			*Johnson, Rubellite K, John K. Mahelona and Clive Ruggles (2026). ''Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star'' ''Name''s (3rd edition). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.


	[[Category:Oceania]] [[Category:Asterism]] [[Category:Constellation]] [[Category:4work]]		[[Category:Oceania]] [[Category:Asterism]] [[Category:Constellation]] [[Category:4work]]