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Nyx Elsewhere

Nyx is not only just a goddess of ancient mythology though. She has had modern homages to her and then other things that have no relation other than name.


In Astronomy

☽¤☾ There is the Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid that has her name, 3908 Nyx.

☽¤☾ International Astronomical Union renamed one of Pluto's recently discovered moons (S/2005 P 2) to Nix, in honor of Nyx, on June 21, 2006. The "i" was used due to the asteroid already using Nyx.


In the World

☽¤☾ NYX has come to be another abbreviation for New York City.


In Marketing

☽¤☾ NYSE Euronext, Inc. is known also as NYX.


In Fashion

☽¤☾ NYX is a cosmetics company name. NYX, Los Angeles, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Toni Ko.

☽¤☾ Nyx Illuminated Clothing is a small LA based company marketing $900+ LED jackets, dresses and purses that displays text messages from booth tooth devices.

☽¤☾ NYX Sports Vision System is a brand of sportsglasses. The glasses are solely distributed by EAR, Inc.


In Cyberspace

☽¤☾ Nyx.net is a nonprofit organization that gives free public Internet access.

☽¤☾ Nyx.com goes directly to the NYSE Euronext page.


In Games

☽¤☾ In Castlevania Portrait of Ruin, there is an enemy named Nyx, who, when the player comes in contact with her, grants the player a poison status.

☽¤☾ In the Myth series, Nyx is the goddess responsible for creating the Trow, who aided her in building the world.

☽¤☾ The final boss in Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 is a Bio Organic Weapon named "Nyx".


In Books

☽¤☾ Piers Anthony's series Incarnations of Immortality has an a character to act as the Incarnation of Night, who appropriately goes by Nox.

☽¤☾ In Dan Simmons' science fiction novels, Ilium and Olympos, Nyx appears as a mysterious Greek goddess known as Night.

☽¤☾ There is an American comic book miniseries by Marvel Comics called NYX. It is composed of seven issues that tell about a group of homeless teenage mutants in New York. It ran from 2003 to 2005.





Internet sources:
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