Aurora (planet)
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Aurora is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. It was the first world settled by the Spacers, originally named 'New Earth'; it was located 3.7 parsecs (12 light years) from Earth. It was renamed Aurora, which means 'dawn', to signify a dawn of a new age. It was the innermost world orbiting Tau Ceti. It was famous among the Spacer worlds for its grape juice.
The head of Aurora's planetary government was called the 'Chairman'.
Aurora at its height had a population of 200,000,000 humans and 10,000,000,000 robots. The largest 'city' on the planet was Eos, the administrative and robotic centre of Aurora where Han Fastolfe and Gladia Solaria lived. The University of Eos and the Auroran Robotics Institute were both in Eos.
After Aurora's death, most of its inhabitants emigrated to Trantor, settling in the Mycogen Sector. The descendents of the Aurorans, or Mycogenians, never forgot Aurora, but they apparently evolved to the point where they were indistinguishable from Settlers.
- Star
- Spectral Class: G-4
- Mass: .9 that of Sol
- Planet (Tau Ceti I)
- Inclination: 16º
- Period of Rotation: .93 Galactic Standard Days
- Period of Revolution: .95 Galactic Standard Years
- Satellites: Tithonus, Tithonus II
| Major and minor planets featured in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series |
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Anacreon | Aurora | Baley's World (Comporellon) | Earth | Gaia | Helicon | Kalgan | Korell | Delicass (Neotrantor) | Sayshell | Solaria | Siwenna | Tazenda | Terminus | Trantor (Hame) |