Bear Constellations
Two constellations are named after bears: Ursa Major (Great Bear) and Ursa Minor (Little Bear). Both found in the northern sky, explorers use them to navigate in the dark.
The Ursa Major or “Great Bear” constellation is the third-largest constellation and contains the Big Dipper.
The bears are the constellations known as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, or the Greater Bear and the Lesser Bear. The stars that make up these constellations are almost always visible in the northern hemisphere.
The written history of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor goes back thousands of years. Ptolemy listed Ursa Major and Ursa Minor as one of 48 constellations in one of the earliest surviving books on astronomy. It is mentioned in even earlier works, such as a poem by Aratus in 275 BCE.
As with many stories from history, there is more than one version of the myth of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. One version is that Ursa Major represents Callisto who had a child with Zeus, king of the Greek gods. When Zeus’ wife, Hera, found out, she turned Callisto into a bear. Then one day Callisto’s son was out hunting and saw a great bear, not realizing it was his mother. To save them both Zeus threw them into the sky. Callisto became Ursa Major and her son, Arcus, became Ursa Minor. In other stories, Zeus turned Callisto into the bear to hide her from Hera. Other stories use the Roman form of the gods, Jupiter and Juno.
https://peecnature.org/ursa-major-and-ursa-minor/
Ursa Minor is usually associated with two different myths. In one, the constellation represents Ida, the nymph who took care of Zeus on the island of Crete when he was small, along with Adrasteia, the nymph represented by the larger constellation Ursa Major. Zeus’ mother Rhea hid Zeus on the island when he was very young to protect him from his father Cronus. Cronus, fearful of an old prophecy that said that one of his children would overthrow him, swallowed five of his children after they were born. When Zeus was born, Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone instead, and Zeus eventually fulfilled the prophecy. He freed his brothers Poseidon and Hades and sisters Hera, Hestia and Demeter, and became the supreme god of the Olympians.
https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/ursa-minor-constellation/
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Now on to the puzzle.
N39 45. ___________ W080 16. ________
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For this puzzle you will be doing a graph. So you need to gather your supplies. You will need:
33 squares long by 30 squares wide graph paper or a computer
crayons, colored pencils or your computer
Colors needed:
W - white
B – brown
T - tan
P – pink
G - gray
BL - black
Now to begin.
ROW 1: 2W 6B14W 6B 2W
ROW 2: 1W 2B 4T 2B 2W 8B 2W 2B 4T 2B 1W
ROW 3: 1W 1B 6T 14B 6T 1B 1W
ROW 4: 2B 5T 16B 5T 2B
ROW 5: 1B 5T 5B 3G 2B 1G 2B 1G 4B 5T 1B
ROW 6: 1B 4T 5B 1G 2B 1G 2B 1G 2B 1G 5B 4T 1B
ROW 7: 2B 2T 7B 3G 2B 4G 6B 2T 2B
ROW 8: 1W 12B 1G 5B 1G 9B 1W
ROW 9: 2W 11B 1G 5B 1G 7B 3W
ROW 10: 2W 26B 2W
ROW 11: 2W 8B 3G 3B 4G 8B 2W
ROW 12: 1W 12B 1G 2B 1G 2B 1G 9B 1W
ROW 13: 1W 9B 3G 3B 1G 2B 1G 9B 1W
ROW 14: 1W 12B 1G 2B 1G 2B 1G 9B 1W
ROW 15: 1W 7B 2BL 3G 3B 4G 2BL 7B 1W
ROW 16: 1W 7B 2BL 10B 2BL 7B 1W
ROW 17: 1W 28B 1W
ROW 18: 1W 10B 8T 10B 1W
ROW 19: 1W 4B 3P 2B 3T 4BL 3T 2B 3P 4B 1W
ROW 20: 1W 4B 3P 1B 4T 4BL 4T 1B 3P 4B 1W
ROW 21: 2W 7B 2T 1BL 2T 2BL 2T 1BL 2T 7B 2W
ROW 22: 2W 7B 2T 1BL 2T 2BL 2T 1BL 2T 7B 2W
ROW 23: 3W 7B 2T 2BL 2T 2BL 2T 7B 3W
ROW 24: 4W 7B 8T 7B 4W
ROW 25: 6W 18B 6W
ROW 26: 8W 14B 8W
ROW 27: 10W 10B 10W
ROW 28: 30W
ROW 29: 10W 4G 2W 1G 2W 1G 10W
ROW 30: 10W 1G 2W 1G 2W 1G 2W 1G 10W
ROW 31: 10W 1G 2W 1G 2W 4G 10W
ROW32: 10W 1G 2W 1G 5W 1G 10W
ROW 33: 10W 4G 5W 1G 10W
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