• A classical planet is an astronomical object that is visible to the naked eye and moves across the sky and its backdrop of fixed stars (the common stars...
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  • total of 7 planets. The ancient Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Medieval Christians, and others thought of the 7 Classical Planets as gods and...
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    has eight planets by the most restrictive definition of the term: the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, and the giant planets Jupiter...
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  • astronomy to represent a classical planet (which includes the Sun and the Moon) or one of the modern planets. The classical symbols were also used in...
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    like the eight classical planets of the Solar System. The prototypical dwarf planet is Pluto, which for decades was regarded as a planet before the "dwarf"...
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  • overlapped. Frequently used symbols include signs of the zodiac and classical planets. These originate from medieval Byzantine codices. Their current form...
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    this class. The term "dwarf planet" would have been available to describe all planets smaller than the eight "classical planets" in orbit around the Sun...
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  • being the brightest planets were given rulership of the brightest months of the year and Saturn the coldest furthest classical planet was given to the coldest...
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    have low-eccentricity and sometimes low-inclination orbits like the classical planets. The name "cubewano" derives from the first trans-Neptunian object...
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  • one of the seven planetary spheres, or what are known as the seven classical planets: the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, or Mars, along...
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    making a total of seven planets. The seven days of the week of the Hindu calendar also corresponds with the seven classical planets and related day names...
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    moons List of planet types (etymologically accepting of multiple categories) Lists of astronomical objects Classical planet Definition of planet List of exoplanet...
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    dynamics). This conceptualization of planets as three classes of objects (classical planets, dwarf planets and satellite planets) has not been accepted by the...
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  • Magic Classical (formerly Scala Radio) is a British digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK. The station was launched in March...
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  • associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered...
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    Planetary hours (category Planets in astrology)
    The planetary hours are an ancient system in which one of the seven classical planets is given rulership over each day and various parts of the day. Developed...
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    Nabu (category Articles containing Classical Syriac-language text)
    the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom. He is associated with the classical planet Mercury in Babylonian astronomy. The Akkadian nabû means "announcer"...
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    Shukra (section Planet)
    recorded in the Vedas. The classical planets, including Venus, were referenced in the Atharvaveda around 1000 BCE. The planet Venus was deified and referred...
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    readily visible Solar System objects after Saturn, the dimmest of the classical planets; though their closeness to bright Jupiter makes naked-eye observation...
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  • (2023-04-19). "We Finally Know How The Maya Calendar Matches Up With The Planets". IFLScience. Tedlock, Barbara (1992). Time and the Highland Maya (rev...
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    Makemake (minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and the largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt objects...
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    five elements with the five planets (Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Mercury) similar to the way the classical planets were associated with different...
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  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a 2024 American science fiction action film directed by Wes Ball and written by Josh Friedman. It is the fourth installment...
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  • Wandering star refers to the classical planets of Antiquity, referring to the Greek word πλανήτης (planētēs), meaning 'wanderer'. Wandering star may also...
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    Uranus (redirect from Planet Uranus)
    the planet with a subprobe of Tianwen-4. Like the classical planets, Uranus is visible to the naked eye, but it was never recognised as a planet by ancient...
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    realms of deities and with observed celestial bodies such as the classical planets and fixed stars. Beliefs in the plurality of the heavens were not...
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  • Astrology has used the concept of classical elements from antiquity up until the present. In Western astrology and Sidereal astrology four elements are...
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  • for the planet in Persian, Urdu, Malay and Swahili, among others Chinese 火星 [Mandarin Huǒxīng] 'fire star' (in Chinese the five classical planets are identified...
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    including English, the days of the week are named after gods or classical planets. Saturday has kept its Roman name, while the other six days use Germanic...
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    Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of objects such as projectiles, parts of machinery, spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies...
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