Osiris (disambiguation)
Osiris is an Egyptian deity. He is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion.
Osiris may also refer to:
Astronomy
- 1923 Osiris, an asteroid
- Osiris (lunar crater)
- Osiris (planet) or HD 209458 b, an extrasolar planet
- Osiris (Ganymede crater), a crater on Ganymede
- OSIRIS-REx, a NASA New Frontiers mission to return samples from an asteroid
- Odin-OSIRIS, an atmospheric measurement instrument
- OH-Suppressing Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph
- Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy
- Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System
Entertainment
- Osiris: New Dawn, an action-adventure video game
- Osiris (DC Comics), any of three characters from DC Comics
- Osiris (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Osiris (Stargate), a character in Stargate SG-1
- Osiris (funk band), 1970s funk band led by Tyrone Brunson
- Osiris (symphony), a symphony by Gamal El-Din Abdel Rehim
- Born of Osiris, American heavy metal musical ensemble
Other
- Osiris (genus), a genus of cleptoparasitic bees
- Osiris (journal), a scholarly journal on the history of science
- HMS Osiris, an Oberon-class submarine in the Royal Navy
- Osiris (Serverless Portal System)
- Osiris, Missouri, a community in the United States
- Osiris Shoes, a skateboarding footwear company
- Osiris, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive
- Daniel Iffla, French financier and philanthropist also known as Osiris
- Optical Space Infrared Downlink System, a series of German satellite experiments.
See also
- Osyris, a genus of plants
- Osirak, an Iraqi nuclear reactor based on the French-designed Osiris reactor
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