A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet, is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate, rocks or metals. Within the Solar System,...
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Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) was a proposed project by NASA to construct a system of space telescopes for detecting extrasolar terrestrial planets...
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Earth (redirect from Earth (Planet))
adjectives for the planet Earth. The word "earthly" is derived from "Earth". From the Latin Terra comes terran /ˈtɛrən/, terrestrial /təˈrɛstriəl/, 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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Solar System (redirect from Inner planet)
objects that orbit the Sun are the eight planets. In order from the Sun, they are four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars); two gas...
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Potential terrestrial exoplanets List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates List of potentially habitable exoplanets For a list of planets as used...
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Look up terrestrial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial...
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Towards a Classification System of Terrestrial Planets Out There: A Strange Zoo of Other Worlds SpaceEngine Planet Classifications A Planetary Classification...
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example in the geography or composition of the planet) resembling an eyeball. They are terrestrial planets where liquids may be present, in which tidal...
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Venus (redirect from Venus (Planet))
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is a terrestrial planet and is the closest in mass and size to its orbital neighbour Earth. Venus is notable...
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communication, and the messenger of the gods. Mercury is classified as a terrestrial planet, with roughly the same surface gravity as Mars. The surface of Mercury...
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Mars (redirect from Planet Mars)
telescope viewing. It is classified as a terrestrial planet and is the second smallest of the Solar System's planets with a diameter of 6,779 km (4,212 mi)...
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Extraterrestrial life (redirect from Extra-terrestrials)
astronomers search for extrasolar planets that may be conducive to life, narrowing the search to terrestrial planets within the habitable zones of their...
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silicate rocks and/or metals. Within the Solar System, the terrestrial planets are the inner planets closest to the Sun. This list is incomplete, currently...
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The geology of solar terrestrial planets mainly deals with the geological aspects of the four terrestrial planets of the Solar System – Mercury, Venus...
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Late Heavy Bombardment (section Giant-planet migration)
disproportionately large number of asteroids and comets collided into the terrestrial planets and their natural satellites in the inner Solar System, including...
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A lava planet is a type of terrestrial planet, with a surface mostly or entirely covered by molten lava. Situations where such planets could exist include...
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A desert planet, also known as a dry planet, an arid planet, or a dune planet, is a type of terrestrial planet with an arid surface consistency similar...
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Formation and evolution of the Solar System (redirect from Terrestrial embryo)
mergers between these planet-sized bodies allowed terrestrial planets to grow to their present sizes. When terrestrial planets were forming, they remained...
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The presence of water on the terrestrial planets of the Solar System (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the closely related Earth's Moon) varies with each...
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Jumping-Jupiter scenario (section Terrestrial planets)
inner Solar System exciting the orbits of the terrestrial planets and the asteroids, leaving the planets' orbits too eccentric, and the asteroid belt with...
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Planetary system (redirect from Double-planet system)
large planets close to their parent stars. At present,[when?] few systems have been found to be analogous to the Solar System with terrestrial planets close...
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison...
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Planet V is a hypothetical fifth terrestrial planet posited by NASA scientists John Chambers and Jack J. Lissauer to have once existed between Mars and...
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Planetshine (section Search for terrestrial planets)
faint planet, but rather detecting a faint planet that is extremely close to a very bright star. For a terrestrial planet, the contrast ratio of planet to...
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Planetary habitability (redirect from Habitable planet)
luminosity, stable variability, and high metallicity. Rocky, wet terrestrial-type planets and moons with the potential for Earth-like chemistry are a primary...
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σφαίρα (sphaíra) 'sphere') is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust and the...
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Nebular hypothesis (redirect from Planet formation)
producing a few terrestrial planets. The last stage takes approximately 100 million to a billion years. The formation of giant planets is a more complicated...
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the requisite character (i.e. a circumstellar habitable zone); a terrestrial planet of the right mass; the advantage of one or more gas giant guardians...
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Jupiter (redirect from Planet Jupiter)
the grand tack hypothesis. The resulting formation timescales of terrestrial planets appear to be inconsistent with the measured elemental composition...
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