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Planet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The planets were originally seen by many early cultures as divine, or as emissaries of the gods. As scientific knowledge advanced, human perception of the planets changed ...
Extrasolar planet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php. ^ a b " Rock planets outnumber gas giants". msn. 2008-05-28. http://tech.uk.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp ...
Curious About Astronomy? Planets
Saturn's Rings: As Saturn travels around the Sun, we see its majestic ring system from different angles. These images were taken with the Hubble Space Telescope from the year ...
Planet - SporeWiki, the Spore wiki anyone can edit - stages, creatures ...
Planets or Terrain in Spore play a very crucial part in the heart of the game, as they are where all major activity happens, outside of the Space stage's interstellar exploration.
Planets — NASA Science
Advancing scientific knowledge of the origin and history of the solar system, the potential of life elsewhere, and the hazards and resources present as humans explore space.
StarChild: The Planets and Dwarf Planets
A planet is a large space object which revolves around a star. It also reflects that star's light. Eight planets have been discovered in our solar system.
Planets - Zoom Astronomy
All about the planets in our Solar System. The planets that orbit the sun are (in order from the sun): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (a ...
Planets - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Planets
Celestial body in our Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun, is large enough to be spherical, and which dominates its orbit (sweeping its neighbourhood clear).
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Venus. Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon.
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A planet (from Greek , alternative form of "wanderer") is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.

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