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Aurora is the Latin word for "dawn".

It can refer to:

• Aurora was the ancient Roman equivalent of 'Eos', the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn.
• Aurora, an atmospheric optical phenomenon caused by electrically-charged solar wind particles bombarding the upper atmosphere of a planet in the presence of a magnetic field.

Contents 1 Localities 2 Automobiles 3 Aircraft 4 Marine vessels 5 Space 6 Fiction 7 Music 8 Biology 9 Miscellaneous

Localities

The largest of which is the city in the U.S. state of Colorado:

• Guatemala
  • La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

• In Canada:
  • Aurora, Ontario
  • Aurora Place, Alberta
  • Aurora, New Brunswick

• In the Philippines
  • Aurora province
  • Maria Aurora, Aurora
  • Aurora, Isabela
  • Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur

• In South Africa
  • Aurora, South Africa

• In the United States:
  • Aurora, Alabama
  • Aurora, Alaska
  • Aurora, Arkansas
  • Aurora, California
  • Aurora, Colorado
  • Aurora, Florida
  • Aurora, Illinois
  • Aurora, Indiana
  • Aurora, Iowa
  • Aurora, Kansas
  • Aurora, Kentucky
  • Aurora, Louisiana
  • Aurora, Maine
  • Aurora, Michigan
  • Aurora, Minnesota
  • Aurora, Missouri
  • Aurora, Montana
  • Aurora, Nebraska
  • Aurora, Nevada
  • Aurora, New Mexico
  • Aurora, Cayuga County, New York
  • Aurora, Erie County, New York
  • Aurora, North Carolina
  • Aurora, Ohio
  • Aurora, Oklahoma
  • Aurora, Oregon
  • Aurora, South Dakota
  • Aurora, Texas
  • Aurora, Utah
  • Aurora, West Virginia
  • Aurora, Florence County, Wisconsin
  • Aurora, Taylor County, Wisconsin
  • Aurora, Washington County, Wisconsin
  • Aurora, Waushara County, Wisconsin
  • Aurora County, South Dakota
  • Aurora Township, North Dakota

Automobiles

• Aurora safety car of 1957
• Oldsmobile Aurora

Aircraft

• A (possibly fictional) U.S. Air Force hypersonic spy plane. See Aurora aircraft.
• The Canadian name for the P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft.

Marine vessels

• Ten ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Aurora.
• The name of the cruiser in Saint Petersburg that rang in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Further information: Cruiser Aurora

• One of two Australian Antarctic expedition vessels;

Further information: Aurora (ship), Aurora Australis (icebreaker)

• MV Aurora, a cruise ship operated by P & O Cruises.
• M/V Aurora, a ferry vessel operated by the Alaska Marine Highway System.

Space

• An asteroid, discovered by J. C. Watson, in September 6, 1867.

Further information: 94 Aurora

• The Aurora Programme, a strategy of the European Space Agency.

Fiction

• The princess in Walt Disney's version of Sleeping Beauty.

Further information: Princess Aurora

• A superhero in the Marvel Universe.

Further information: Aurora (comics)

• One of the Spacer worlds in Isaac Asimov's fiction.

Further information: Aurora (planet)

• A science fiction & fantasy society from Rijeka, Croatia.

Further information: Aurora, SF society

• The Aurora is an 'Ancient' warship in Stargate Atlantis

Music

• a UK house group, also known as Aurora UK
• a California (US)-based ambient group
• a US contemporary Christian R&B group
• a Mexican Latin music band.
• a Hungarian punk rock band, formed in 1982.
• a symphonic poem composed by the late William Lloyd Webber, father of musical theater composer-impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber and renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.
• a song by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk from her album Vespertine (2001)
• an album by Susumu Hirasawa, Aurora
• a song by American rock band Foo Fighters, from their 1999 album, "There Is Nothing Left To Lose."

Biology

• The collective noun for a group of polar bears.
• The name of a family of kinases
• It is also a popular given name for women, which explains why this entry is often vandalised as a form of wooing.

Miscellaneous

• The name of the game engine that runs Neverwinter Nights; the toolset is called the Aurora toolset because of this.

• The name of an IBM product called AURORA, a feature-rich and scalable flow-based network profiling system.

• Several commercial enterprises:
  • Aurora Casket Company - a casket manufacturing company based in Aurora, Indiana.
  • The name of an old Italian company that makes fountain pens.
  • An electricity company in Tasmania; see Aurora Energy.

• In computers:
  • Direct Revenue's Aurora Adware.

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