Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers
October 25, 2019 - Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Asteroids | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Dwarf Planets · This page shows information about planetary bodies named by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), and about bodies named by the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature ...
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Overview | Planets – NASA Solar System Exploration
April 3, 2023 - There are more planets than stars in our galaxy. We've discovered thousands of planets orbiting distant stars, but it all started with the worlds orbiting our star — the Sun. he current lineup includes eight planets.
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Planet Names | Vocabulary | EnglishClub
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Planet Name Generator: 1000+ Planet Name Ideas 🪐 | Imagine Forest
January 20, 2021 - Our planet name generator has over 1,000+ planet name ideas for your sci-fi stories. From major planets to dwarf planet names.
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Naming of exoplanets | IAU
August 8, 2022 - Exoplanets named after astronomical or planet-searching projects include the HAT planets (after the Hungarian Automated Telescope Network (HATNet)), and the WASP planets (after the SuperWASP project), both of which are ground-based efforts. Numerous other examples exist.
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Planet - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - The word planet probably comes from the Greek planḗtai, meaning "wanderers". In antiquity, this word referred to the Sun, Moon, and five points of light visible by the naked eye that moved across the background of the stars—namely, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
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Solar system planets, order and formation: A guide | Space
March 29, 2023 - The ancient Greeks named them planets, meaning "wanderers." Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were known in antiquity, and the invention of the telescope added the Asteroid Belt, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and many of these worlds' moons. The dawn of the space age saw dozens of probes launched ...
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What's the Order of the Planets in the Solar System? | HowStuffWorks
May 1, 2021 - From the first launches in the late 1950s until today, we've sent probes, orbiters, landers and even rovers (like NASA's Perseverance Rover that touched down on Mars in February 2021) to every planet in our solar system. But can you name all eight of those planets in order?
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How did the planets get their names? | Cool Cosmos
All of the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and godesses. Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury were given their names thousands of years ago. The other planets were not discovered until much later, after telescopes were invented.
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Random Planet Name Generator - Sci-Fi, Alien, Fantasy Planets
May 9, 2020 - Planet Name Generator has over a billion random planet names of science fiction, alien and fantasy planets, moons, or celestial bodies for any story or game.
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