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			[[File:Rooster stellarium.jpg\|alt=Stellarium map\|thumb\|Rooster in Babylonian uranography, painting by Jessica Gullberg for Stellarium (2022).<ref>Gullberg, J, Hoffmann, S.M. and Gullberg, S.R. (2022). Painting Babylonian: New Constellations in Stellarium, in Hoffmann and Wolfschmidt (eds.). ''Astronomy in Culture – Cultures of Astronomy'', tredition Hamburg/ OpenScienceTechnology Berlin, 171-191</ref>]]
	Darlugal is a modern IAU-star name for the star ζ Lep (HR 1998, HIP 27288) in [[Lepus]], derived from Sumerian [[DAR.LUGAL]] = Akkadian ''tarlugallu/tarnugallu'', The Rooster, which is the Mesopotamian constellation that covers this area.		Darlugal is a modern IAU-star name for the star ζ Lep (HR 1998, HIP 27288) in [[Lepus]], derived from Sumerian [[DAR.LUGAL]] = Akkadian ''tarlugallu/tarnugallu'', The Rooster, which is the Mesopotamian constellation that covers this area.

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	Darlugal is a modern IAU-star name for the star ζ Lep in [[Lepus]], derived from Sumerian [[DAR.LUGAL]] = Akkadian ''tarlugallu/tarnugallu'', The Rooster, which is the Mesopotamian constellation that covers this area.		Darlugal is a modern IAU-star name for the star ζ Lep (HR 1998, HIP 27288) in [[Lepus]], derived from Sumerian [[DAR.LUGAL]] = Akkadian ''tarlugallu/tarnugallu'', The Rooster, which is the Mesopotamian constellation that covers this area.

	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==

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	Darlugal is a modern IAU-star name in [[Lepus]], derived from Sumerian [[DAR.LUGAL]] = Akkadian ''tarlugallu/tarnugallu'', The Rooster, which is the Mesopotamian constellation that covers this area.		Darlugal is a modern IAU-star name for the star ζ Lep in [[Lepus]], derived from Sumerian [[DAR.LUGAL]] = Akkadian ''tarlugallu/tarnugallu'', The Rooster, which is the Mesopotamian constellation that covers this area.

	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==

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	=== Astronomical Identification ===		=== Astronomical Identification ===
	Astrometrical evidence for the identification of [[DAR.LUGAL]] with the area of Lepus is suggested in MUL.APIN (from before 1000 BCE) and confirmed in the so-called GU-text from the middle of the first millennium BCE (~500 BCE).		Astrometrical evidence for the identification of [[DAR.LUGAL]] with the area of Lepus is suggested in MUL.APIN (from before 1000 BCE) and confirmed in the so-called GU-text from the middle of the first millennium BCE (~500 BCE). It is an astrometrical text that sorts asterisms by lines of right ascension.

	=== Cultural Importance of Chicken ===		=== Cultural Importance of Chicken ===

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	[[File:DistribChicken Peters2015 Screenshot.png\|thumb\|Successive distribution of domesticated chicken in Eurasia and Northern Africa (Peters et al. 2015, fig. 1).]]		[[File:DistribChicken Peters2015 Screenshot.png\|thumb\|Successive distribution of domesticated chicken in Eurasia and Northern Africa (Peters et al. 2015, fig. 1).]]

	Archaeological evidence suggests that chickens were domesticated in Southeast Asia, modern-day Thailand in particular, around 7500(±3300y) BCE, which is derived from genome sequencing initiative for domestic chicken.<ref>Ming-Shan et al. (2020). 863 genomes reveal the origin and domestication of chicken;30(8):693–701. doi: 10.1038/s41422-020-0349-y;		Archaeological evidence suggests that chickens were domesticated in Southeast Asia, modern-day Thailand in particular, around 7500(±3300y) BCE, which is derived from genome sequencing initiative for domestic chicken: "domestic chickens were derived initially from the wild RJF subspecies G. g. spadiceus that are currently indigenous in southwestern China, Thailand and Myanmar."<ref>Ming-Shan et al. (2020). 863 genomes reveal the origin and domestication of chicken;30(8):693–701. doi: 10.1038/s41422-020-0349-y;

	[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7395088/ online]</ref> By the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE, it became culturally present in West Asia (e.g. Mesopotamia).<ref>Perry-Gal L., Erlich A., Gilboa A., Bar-Oz G., Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9849–9854 (2015).</ref>		[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7395088/ online]</ref>

	They are documented with certainty in the Indus culture and in Egypt from around -1400 on. Chickens appear in the archaeological and iconographic record in Mesopotamia during Iron Age I (∼1150 to 965 BCE; Peters et al. 2022<ref name=":0">Peters et al. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens, 119(24):e2121978119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121978119		By the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE, it became culturally present in West Asia (e.g. India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt).<ref>Perry-Gal L., Erlich A., Gilboa A., Bar-Oz G., Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9849–9854 (2015).</ref> They are documented with certainty in the Indus culture and in Egypt from around -1400 on. Chickens appear in the archaeological and iconographic record in Mesopotamia during Iron Age I (∼1150 to 965 BCE; Peters et al. 2022<ref name=":0">Peters et al. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens, 119(24):e2121978119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121978119

	[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9214543/ online]</ref>). <blockquote>"On the Indian subcontinent, which also constitutes a part of the natural dispersal range of the jungle fowl, chicken remains were recorded at a few second millennium B.C.E. sites, and it is commonly assumed that domestication occurred there independently.<ref>West B, Zhou B-X. Did chickens go North? New evidence for domestication. J Archaeol Sci. 1988;15:515–533.</ref><ref>Potts A. Chicken. Reaktion Books; London: 2012.</ref><ref>Badam GL. 1984. Holocene faunal material from India with special reference to domesticated animals in Animals and Archaeology: Early Herders and Their Flocks. BAR International Series 202, eds Clutton-Brock J, Grigson C (Archaeopress, Oxford, UK), pp 339–353.</ref><ref>Pawankar SJ, Thomas PK. Fauna and subsistence pattern in the Chalcolithic culture of Western India, with special reference to Inamgaon: Postpalaeolithic Europe II, Asia, Africa. Anthropozoologica. 1997 25-26:737–746.</ref><ref>Fuller DQ. Agricultural origins and frontiers in South Asia: A working synthesis. J World Prehist. 2006;20(1):1–86. </ref>"<ref name=":0" /></blockquote><blockquote>"Historical and iconographic records demonstrate an acquaintance with the chicken from the mid-second millennium B.C.E. in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant.<ref>Eggler J. 2010 Iconography of deities and demons: Electronic pre-publication: Rooster. Available at: [https://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/ www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/].</ref> All these sources relate to chickens (almost exclusively cocks) as an exotic bird, used ''inter alia'' for cockfighting and displayed as exotica in royal zoos."<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>It is assumed that they were initially kept mainly for amusement by organising cockfights on which bets could be placed (this cultural practice is documented by Homer in the 8th century BCE). Domesticated roosters therefore date to the same period as the oldest known astronomical compendium, MUL.APIN, written in cuneiform.		[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9214543/ online]</ref>).<blockquote>"On the Indian subcontinent, which also constitutes a part of the natural dispersal range of the jungle fowl, chicken remains were recorded at a few second millennium B.C.E. sites, and it is commonly assumed that domestication occurred there independently.<ref>West B, Zhou B-X. Did chickens go North? New evidence for domestication. J Archaeol Sci. 1988;15:515–533.</ref><ref>Potts A. Chicken. Reaktion Books; London: 2012.</ref><ref>Badam GL. 1984. Holocene faunal material from India with special reference to domesticated animals in Animals and Archaeology: Early Herders and Their Flocks. BAR International Series 202, eds Clutton-Brock J, Grigson C (Archaeopress, Oxford, UK), pp 339–353.</ref><ref>Pawankar SJ, Thomas PK. Fauna and subsistence pattern in the Chalcolithic culture of Western India, with special reference to Inamgaon: Postpalaeolithic Europe II, Asia, Africa. Anthropozoologica. 1997 25-26:737–746.</ref><ref>Fuller DQ. Agricultural origins and frontiers in South Asia: A working synthesis. J World Prehist. 2006;20(1):1–86. </ref>"<ref name=":0" /></blockquote><blockquote>"Historical and iconographic records demonstrate an acquaintance with the chicken from the mid-second millennium B.C.E. in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant.<ref>Eggler J. 2010 Iconography of deities and demons: Electronic pre-publication: Rooster. Available at: [https://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/ www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/].</ref> All these sources relate to chickens (almost exclusively cocks) as an exotic bird, used ''inter alia'' for cockfighting and displayed as exotica in royal zoos."<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>It is assumed that they were initially kept mainly for amusement by organising cockfights on which bets could be placed (this cultural practice is documented by Homer in the 8th century BCE). Domesticated roosters therefore date to the same period as the oldest known astronomical compendium, MUL.APIN, written in cuneiform.

	==Mythology/ Religion==		==Mythology/ Religion==

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	[[File:DistribChicken Peters2015 Screenshot.png\|thumb\|Successive distribution of domesticated chicken in Eurasia and Northern Africa (Peters et al. 2015, fig. 1).]]		[[File:DistribChicken Peters2015 Screenshot.png\|thumb\|Successive distribution of domesticated chicken in Eurasia and Northern Africa (Peters et al. 2015, fig. 1).]]

	Archaeological evidence suggests that chickens were domesticated in Southeast Asia, modern-day Thailand in particular, by the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE.<ref>Perry-Gal L., Erlich A., Gilboa A., Bar-Oz G., Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9849–9854 (2015).</ref> They are documented with certainty in the Indus culture and in Egypt from around -1400 on. Chickens appear in the archaeological and iconographic record in Mesopotamia during Iron Age I (∼1150 to 965 BCE; Peters et al. 2022<ref name=":0">Peters et al. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens, 119(24):e2121978119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121978119		Archaeological evidence suggests that chickens were domesticated in Southeast Asia, modern-day Thailand in particular, around 7500(±3300y) BCE, which is derived from genome sequencing initiative for domestic chicken.<ref>Ming-Shan et al. (2020). 863 genomes reveal the origin and domestication of chicken;30(8):693–701. doi: 10.1038/s41422-020-0349-y;

			[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7395088/ online]</ref> By the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE, it became culturally present in West Asia (e.g. Mesopotamia).<ref>Perry-Gal L., Erlich A., Gilboa A., Bar-Oz G., Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9849–9854 (2015).</ref>

			They are documented with certainty in the Indus culture and in Egypt from around -1400 on. Chickens appear in the archaeological and iconographic record in Mesopotamia during Iron Age I (∼1150 to 965 BCE; Peters et al. 2022<ref name=":0">Peters et al. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens, 119(24):e2121978119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121978119

	[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9214543/ online]</ref>). <blockquote>"On the Indian subcontinent, which also constitutes a part of the natural dispersal range of the jungle fowl, chicken remains were recorded at a few second millennium B.C.E. sites, and it is commonly assumed that domestication occurred there independently.<ref>West B, Zhou B-X. Did chickens go North? New evidence for domestication. J Archaeol Sci. 1988;15:515–533.</ref><ref>Potts A. Chicken. Reaktion Books; London: 2012.</ref><ref>Badam GL. 1984. Holocene faunal material from India with special reference to domesticated animals in Animals and Archaeology: Early Herders and Their Flocks. BAR International Series 202, eds Clutton-Brock J, Grigson C (Archaeopress, Oxford, UK), pp 339–353.</ref><ref>Pawankar SJ, Thomas PK. Fauna and subsistence pattern in the Chalcolithic culture of Western India, with special reference to Inamgaon: Postpalaeolithic Europe II, Asia, Africa. Anthropozoologica. 1997 25-26:737–746.</ref><ref>Fuller DQ. Agricultural origins and frontiers in South Asia: A working synthesis. J World Prehist. 2006;20(1):1–86. </ref>"<ref name=":0" /></blockquote><blockquote>"Historical and iconographic records demonstrate an acquaintance with the chicken from the mid-second millennium B.C.E. in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant.<ref>Eggler J. 2010 Iconography of deities and demons: Electronic pre-publication: Rooster. Available at: [https://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/ www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/].</ref> All these sources relate to chickens (almost exclusively cocks) as an exotic bird, used ''inter alia'' for cockfighting and displayed as exotica in royal zoos."<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>It is assumed that they were initially kept mainly for amusement by organising cockfights on which bets could be placed (this cultural practice is documented by Homer in the 8th century BCE). Domesticated roosters therefore date to the same period as the oldest known astronomical compendium, MUL.APIN, written in cuneiform.		[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9214543/ online]</ref>). <blockquote>"On the Indian subcontinent, which also constitutes a part of the natural dispersal range of the jungle fowl, chicken remains were recorded at a few second millennium B.C.E. sites, and it is commonly assumed that domestication occurred there independently.<ref>West B, Zhou B-X. Did chickens go North? New evidence for domestication. J Archaeol Sci. 1988;15:515–533.</ref><ref>Potts A. Chicken. Reaktion Books; London: 2012.</ref><ref>Badam GL. 1984. Holocene faunal material from India with special reference to domesticated animals in Animals and Archaeology: Early Herders and Their Flocks. BAR International Series 202, eds Clutton-Brock J, Grigson C (Archaeopress, Oxford, UK), pp 339–353.</ref><ref>Pawankar SJ, Thomas PK. Fauna and subsistence pattern in the Chalcolithic culture of Western India, with special reference to Inamgaon: Postpalaeolithic Europe II, Asia, Africa. Anthropozoologica. 1997 25-26:737–746.</ref><ref>Fuller DQ. Agricultural origins and frontiers in South Asia: A working synthesis. J World Prehist. 2006;20(1):1–86. </ref>"<ref name=":0" /></blockquote><blockquote>"Historical and iconographic records demonstrate an acquaintance with the chicken from the mid-second millennium B.C.E. in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant.<ref>Eggler J. 2010 Iconography of deities and demons: Electronic pre-publication: Rooster. Available at: [https://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/ www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/].</ref> All these sources relate to chickens (almost exclusively cocks) as an exotic bird, used ''inter alia'' for cockfighting and displayed as exotica in royal zoos."<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>It is assumed that they were initially kept mainly for amusement by organising cockfights on which bets could be placed (this cultural practice is documented by Homer in the 8th century BCE). Domesticated roosters therefore date to the same period as the oldest known astronomical compendium, MUL.APIN, written in cuneiform.

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	=== Cultural Importance of Chicken ===		=== Cultural Importance of Chicken ===
			[[File:DistribChicken Peters2015 Screenshot.png\|thumb\|Successive distribution of domesticated chicken in Eurasia and Northern Africa (Peters et al. 2015, fig. 1).]]

	Archaeological evidence suggests that chickens were domesticated in Southeast Asia, modern-day Thailand in particular, by the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE.<ref>Perry-Gal L., Erlich A., Gilboa A., Bar-Oz G., Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9849–9854 (2015).</ref> They are documented with certainty in the Indus culture and in Egypt from around -1400 on. Chickens appear in the archaeological and iconographic record in Mesopotamia during Iron Age I (∼1150 to 965 BCE; Peters et al. 2022<ref name=":0">Peters et al. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens, 119(24):e2121978119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121978119		Archaeological evidence suggests that chickens were domesticated in Southeast Asia, modern-day Thailand in particular, by the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE.<ref>Perry-Gal L., Erlich A., Gilboa A., Bar-Oz G., Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9849–9854 (2015).</ref> They are documented with certainty in the Indus culture and in Egypt from around -1400 on. Chickens appear in the archaeological and iconographic record in Mesopotamia during Iron Age I (∼1150 to 965 BCE; Peters et al. 2022<ref name=":0">Peters et al. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens, 119(24):e2121978119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121978119

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	=== Cultural Importance of Chicken ===		=== Cultural Importance of Chicken ===
	Archaeological evidence suggests that chickens were domesticated in ~~southeast~~ Asia, modern-day Thailand in particular, by the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE.<ref>Perry-Gal L., Erlich A., Gilboa A., Bar-Oz G., Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9849–9854 (2015).</ref> They are documented with certainty in the Indus culture and in Egypt from around -1400 on. Chickens appear in the archaeological and iconographic record in Mesopotamia during Iron Age I (∼1150 to 965 BCE; Peters et al. 2022<ref>Peters et al. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens, 119(24):e2121978119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121978119		Archaeological evidence suggests that chickens were domesticated in Southeast Asia, modern-day Thailand in particular, by the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE.<ref>Perry-Gal L., Erlich A., Gilboa A., Bar-Oz G., Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9849–9854 (2015).</ref> They are documented with certainty in the Indus culture and in Egypt from around -1400 on. Chickens appear in the archaeological and iconographic record in Mesopotamia during Iron Age I (∼1150 to 965 BCE; Peters et al. 2022<ref name=":0">Peters et al. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens, 119(24):e2121978119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121978119

	[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9214543/ online]</ref>). It is assumed that they were initially kept mainly for amusement by organising cockfights on which bets could be placed (this cultural practice is documented by Homer in the 8th century BCE). Domesticated roosters therefore date to the same period as the oldest known astronomical compendium, MUL.APIN, written in cuneiform.		[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9214543/ online]</ref>). <blockquote>"On the Indian subcontinent, which also constitutes a part of the natural dispersal range of the jungle fowl, chicken remains were recorded at a few second millennium B.C.E. sites, and it is commonly assumed that domestication occurred there independently.<ref>West B, Zhou B-X. Did chickens go North? New evidence for domestication. J Archaeol Sci. 1988;15:515–533.</ref><ref>Potts A. Chicken. Reaktion Books; London: 2012.</ref><ref>Badam GL. 1984. Holocene faunal material from India with special reference to domesticated animals in Animals and Archaeology: Early Herders and Their Flocks. BAR International Series 202, eds Clutton-Brock J, Grigson C (Archaeopress, Oxford, UK), pp 339–353.</ref><ref>Pawankar SJ, Thomas PK. Fauna and subsistence pattern in the Chalcolithic culture of Western India, with special reference to Inamgaon: Postpalaeolithic Europe II, Asia, Africa. Anthropozoologica. 1997 25-26:737–746.</ref><ref>Fuller DQ. Agricultural origins and frontiers in South Asia: A working synthesis. J World Prehist. 2006;20(1):1–86. </ref>"<ref name=":0" /></blockquote><blockquote>"Historical and iconographic records demonstrate an acquaintance with the chicken from the mid-second millennium B.C.E. in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant.<ref>Eggler J. 2010 Iconography of deities and demons: Electronic pre-publication: Rooster. Available at: [https://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/ www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/].</ref> All these sources relate to chickens (almost exclusively cocks) as an exotic bird, used ''inter alia'' for cockfighting and displayed as exotica in royal zoos."<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>It is assumed that they were initially kept mainly for amusement by organising cockfights on which bets could be placed (this cultural practice is documented by Homer in the 8th century BCE). Domesticated roosters therefore date to the same period as the oldest known astronomical compendium, MUL.APIN, written in cuneiform.

	==Mythology/ Religion==		==Mythology/ Religion==

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	==IAU Working Group on Star Names==		==IAU Working Group on Star Names==
	The name '''Darlugal''' was adopted for the naked eye star Zeta Leporis (HR 1998, HD 38678, HIP 27288, GJ 217.1, GJ 9190) by the IAU WGSN on 22 March 2026 and added to the IAU Catalog of Star Names. The name honours the indigenous Sumerian constellation Darlugal.		The name '''Darlugal''' was adopted for the naked eye star Zeta Leporis (HR 1998, HD 38678, HIP 27288, GJ 217.1, GJ 9190, see [https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=zet+Lep SIMBAD]) by the IAU WGSN on 22 March 2026 and added to the IAU Catalog of Star Names. The name honours the indigenous Sumerian constellation Darlugal.

	The star '''Darlugal''' (Zeta Leporis) is a relatively nearby (21.6 parsecs), fast-rotating, young (~300 million year-old) A-type star. The star is famous for hosting a dusty debris disks first detected with the IRAS infrared observatory in the 1980s. The dust disk appears to be replenished by collisions of asteroids, as the survival timescales for micron-sized dust grains are only thousands of years. This star was notable as it was one of the only two field stars (including Beta Pictoris) for which excess emission was detected by IRAS at 12 microns, implying the existent of relatively warm (~320 Kelvin) dust (Chen & Jura 2001). The star and its dust disk was later resolved using the large ground-based Keck telescope at 18 microns, demonstrating that the infrared excess was coming from dust grains orbiting at a few AU (Moerchen et al. 2007).		The star '''Darlugal''' (Zeta Leporis) is a relatively nearby (21.6 parsecs), fast-rotating, young (~300 million year-old) A-type star. The star is famous for hosting a dusty debris disks first detected with the IRAS infrared observatory in the 1980s. The dust disk appears to be replenished by collisions of asteroids, as the survival timescales for micron-sized dust grains are only thousands of years. This star was notable as it was one of the only two field stars (including Beta Pictoris) for which excess emission was detected by IRAS at 12 microns, implying the existent of relatively warm (~320 Kelvin) dust (Chen & Jura 2001<ref>Chen and Jura (2001). A Possible Massive Asteroid Belt around ζ Leporis, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 560, Issue 2, pp. L171-L174. [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001ApJ...560L.171C/abstract online]</ref>). The star and its dust disk was later resolved using the large ground-based Keck telescope at 18 microns, demonstrating that the infrared excess was coming from dust grains orbiting at a few AU (Moerchen et al. 2007<ref>Moerchen et al. (2007). Mid-Infrared Resolution of a 3 AU Radius Debris Disk around ζ Leporis, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 655, Issue 2, pp. L109-L112 [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...655L.109M/abstract online]</ref>).

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	* [[References\|References (general)]]		* [[References\|References (general)]]
	* [[References (Medieval and Early Modern)\|References (early modern)]]		* [[References (Medieval and Early Modern)\|References (early modern)]]
	* Ian Ridpath's website ([http://ianridpath.com/startales Star Tales] )		* Ian Ridpath's website ([http://ianridpath.com/startales Star Tales] )
	* SIMBAD entry for zet Lep: https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=zet+Lep
	* Chen & Jura 2001 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001ApJ...560L.171C/abstract
	* Moerchen et al. 2007 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...655L.109M/abstract

	[[Category:Single star-asterism‏‎]]		[[Category:Single star-asterism‏‎]]

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	=== Astronomical Identification ===		=== Astronomical Identification ===
	Astrometrical evidence for the identification of DAR.LUGAL with the area of Lepus is ~~given~~ in the so-called GU-text from the middle of the first millennium BCE.		Astrometrical evidence for the identification of [[DAR.LUGAL]] with the area of Lepus is suggested in MUL.APIN (from before 1000 BCE) and confirmed in the so-called GU-text from the middle of the first millennium BCE (~500 BCE).

	=== Cultural Importance of Chicken ===		=== Cultural Importance of Chicken ===