IZIKO PLANETARIUM

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IZIKO PLANETARIUM
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OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
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Pleiades i-Silimela

• Roughly 440Light years from us
• Contains more than 1000 stars
• Known as isilimela in Xhosa Zulu
• Selemela in
  SothoTswana
• Tshirimera in Shona
• Kilimela in Swahili
• The month of June named after the pleiades in the
  Xhosa calendar
• Used to count manhood years
• Indicate the beginning of the year in Xhosa
  Calendar
• Indicate agricultural cycle

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Orion Constellation ama-Kroza

• Represents three sacred places
• The Gave
• The Starry Heaven
• The third Heaven where the supreme God (Qamata)
  dwells

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CANOPUS - UCANZIBE

• HARBINGER OF WINTER
• THE MONTH OF MAY IS NAMED AFTER THIS STAR
• CEREMONY OF MOANING THE BOYHOOD
• (UKUTSHITSHA)

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SIRIUS INGQAQHAWULI / IQHAWE
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ORION - AMAKROZA

• REPRESENTS
• THE GRAVE
• STARRY HEAVENS
• THIRD HEAVEN WHERE SUPREME GOD (QAMATA) DWELS

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CANOPUS - UCANZIBE

• HARBINGER OF WINTER
• MAY MONTH NAMED AFTER IT
• MONTH FOR MOANING BOYHOOD (UKUTSHITSHA)

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A Shooting star i-Nkwenkwezi etshekayo

• Associated with Badluck
• Believed to be an evil spirit
• Todays generation associates it with Goodluck
  Western belief

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COMET UZATSHOBA / INTSHOBOLOLO
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Comet u-Zatshoba/i-Ntshobololo

• Associated with the death of a king
• Brings a deadly livestock disease
• Predicts a natural disaster

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The full Moon- I-Nyanga ethwasileyo

• When visible in the night sky, the following
  morning all children are given the de-worming
  medicine.
• Pumpkin seeds
• Aloe juice

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Crescent Moon i-Ceba le Nyanga

• Predictive of a windy or a cold following day

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Venus iKhwezi (the godess of Love Beauty)

• iKhwezi lokusa associated with diligence
• iKhwezi lesibini one of boys field games
• U-Celizapholo visible at the time of milking the
  cows
• Uma-Dingeni the dating star
• Distance 108.200.000 km
• Year 224 days
• Day 243 days
• Speed 35.02km/sec
• Diameter 12.100km
• Temperature 480degrees C
• Moons 0

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VENUS (MORNING) IKHWEZI LOKUSA

• Diligence
• Travellers
• Chores

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Venus at midday iKhwezi lesibini
- Test of knowledge
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Venus the evening star uCelizapholo

• Asking for milk
• Time to milk cows

Venus the evening star uMadingeni

• Dating star

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Jupiter i-Candabusuku/i-Mbalibusuku

• The Biggest planet in our Solar system
• It is a liquid gas planet
• Its orbit is 12 earth years.
• Distance from the Sun 778.330.000Million km
• Diameter 142.800km
• Day on Jupiter 9.8
• Year on Jupiter 11.86 days
• At Perihelion 740.900.000 km
• At Aphelion 815.700.000km
• Temperature 153 degrees C.

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Jupiter iCandabusuku/iMbalibusuku

• Travellers
• Story telling

Moon
Cape Town
Jupiter
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• iLanga
• iNyanga