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Planet
PLAN'ET, n. [L. planeta; Gr. wandering, to wander, allied to L. planus. See Plant.] A celestial body which revolves about the sun or other center, or a body revolving about another planet as its center. The planets which revolve about the sun as their center, are called primary planets; those which revolve about other planets as their center, and with them revolve about the sun, are called secondary planets, satellites or moons. The primary planets are named Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Herschell. Four smaller planets, denominated by some, asteroids, namely, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, have recently been discovered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Herschell, being without the earth's orbit, are sometimes called the superior planets; Venus and Mercury, being within the earth's orbit, are called inferior planets. The planets are opake bodies which receive their light from the sun. They are so named from their motion or revolution, in distinction from the fixed stars,and are distinguished from the latter by their not twinkling.
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Absolute Anomalous Anomaly Antecedence Aphelion Apogee Appulse Appulsive Apsis Ascending Aspect Asteroid Astrologer Attract Attraction Belt Biquintile Calculate Cartesian Celerity Centripetal Ceres Cerium Circle Combust Comet Concentric Configurate Configuration Conjunction Construct Cube Culminate Culmination Curtate Curtation Decil Deferent Descension Dignity Direct Disaster Discordant Disk Dispositor Disturb Dragons-head Earth Eccentricity Elongate Elongating Elongation Emerge Ephemeris Ephemerist Epicycle Erratic Exaltation Fascia Fixed Geocentric Gravitate Heliocentric Herschel Horoscopy House Ill Immersion Influence Jove Jovial Jupiter Know Like Lucifer Magic Malign Malignancy Mars Martial Medium Mercury Moon Morning-star Move Node Northing Occultation Octant One Orb Orbit Orrery Ortive Pass Path Perihelion Period Periodic Phasis Plane Planet Planet-struck Planetarium Planetary Planeted Planetical Platane Platform Point Predominance Primary Quartile Quintile Representation Retrogradation Retrograde Revolution Roll Run Satellite Saturn Secondary Semi-quadrate Semi-quintile Semi-sextile Sesquiplicate Sextile Siderated Sinister Sphere Spherical Splendent Splendor Spot Square Star Stem Subtend Sullen Sun Synneurosis Syzygy Table Talisman Tetragon Trigon Trine Trioctile Twinkle Uranium Vector Velocity Venus Whirling-table Year
Absolute Anomalous Anomaly Antecedence Aphelion Apogee Appulse Appulsive Apsis Ascending Aspect Asteroid Astrologer Attract Attraction Belt Biquintile Calculate Cartesian Celerity Centripetal Ceres Cerium Circle Combust Comet Concentric Configurate Configuration Conjunction Construct Cube Culminate Culmination Curtate Curtation Decil Deferent Descension Dignity Direct Disaster Discordant Disk Dispositor Disturb Dragons-head Earth Eccentricity Elongate Elongating Elongation Emerge Ephemeris Ephemerist Epicycle Erratic Exaltation Fascia Fixed Geocentric Gravitate Heliocentric Herschel Horoscopy House Ill Immersion Influence Jove Jovial Jupiter Know Like Lucifer Magic Malign Malignancy Mars Martial Medium Mercury Moon Morning-star Move Node Northing Occultation Octant One Orb Orbit Orrery Ortive Pass Path Perihelion Period Periodic Phasis Plane Planet Planet-struck Planetarium Planetary Planeted Planetical Platane Platform Point Predominance Primary Quartile Quintile Representation Retrogradation Retrograde Revolution Roll Run Satellite Saturn Secondary Semi-quadrate Semi-quintile Semi-sextile Sesquiplicate Sextile Siderated Sinister Sphere Spherical Splendent Splendor Spot Square Star Stem Subtend Sullen Sun Synneurosis Syzygy Table Talisman Tetragon Trigon Trine Trioctile Twinkle Uranium Vector Velocity Venus Whirling-table Year
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