1) Animal 2) Asteroidal 3) Daystar 4) Earth 5) Globe 6) Hesperus 7) Jupiter 8) Mars 9) Neptune 10) Orb 11) Planetoid 12) Pluto 13) Saturn 14) Sphere 15) Uranus 16) Venus 17) Vesper 18) World
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1) Apes have one of their own 2) Astronomical concern 3) British bi-monthly magazine 4) British quarterly magazine 5) Celestial body 6) Celestial orbiter 7) Celestial revolver 8) Certain octet member 9) Evening star 10) French word used in English 11) Heavenly body 12) It has solar heating 13) Jupiter, but not Zeus
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A celestial body orbiting a luminary (sun).
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• (n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. • (n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
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A nonluminous celestial body larger than an asteroid or a comet, illuminated by light from a star, such as the sun, around which it revolves. The only known planets are those of the Sun but others have been detected on physical (non-observational) grounds around some of the nearer stars.
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(from Greek plantes, `wanderers`), broadly, any relatively large natural body that revolves in an orbit around the Sun or around some other star and ... [12 related articles]
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The Solar System now has 8 classical planets and several known dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, and Eris On Aug. 24, 2006, astronomers at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague agreed upon definitions that would distinguish between classical planets and dwarf pla...
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Any large body orbiting a star. A somewhat arbitrary term since there appears to be no defining size that clearly differentiates between a planet or asteriod. For example, Pluto is widely regarded as the ninth planet of the Solar System yet its parameters do not clearly conform to the other eight planets of the Solar System. Although it seems unlik...
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1. <astronomy> A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. ... The term planet was first used to distinguish those stars which have an apparent motion through the constellations...
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Plan'et noun [ Middle English
planete , French
planète , Latin
planeta , from Greek ..., and ... a planet; prop. wandering, from ... to wander, from ... a wandering.]
1. (Astron.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccen...
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(1) Any one of the nine primary celestial bodies that orbit the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (2) A similar body orbiting another star.
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A planet is a heavenly body which orbits a star.
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Planet is a cultivated variety of potato.
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A large, spherical body.
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Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork, a program to search for microlensing events
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n] - any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system
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planet An astronomical body that orbits a star and does not shine with its own light, especially one of the nine such bodies orbiting the Sun in the solar system.
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a spherical object that orbits a central star and reflects the suns light. It's diameter can vary but is usually between 1,000 and 100,000 miles
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a spherical object that orbits a central star and reflects the sun's light. Its diameter can vary but is usually between 1,000 and 100,000 miles
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A spherical ball of rock and/or gas that orbits a star. The Earth is a planet. Our solar system has nine planets. These planets are, in order of increasing average distance from the Sun
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A spherical ball of rock and/or gas that orbits a star. The Earth is a planet. Our solar system has nine planets. These planets are, in order of increasing average distance from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. See also: Atmosphere, Pole, Prebiotic, Protoplanetary Disc.
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major planet noun (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity t...
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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). There are eight planets in the Solar System orbiting the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Th...
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An object moving around a star.
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a spherical object that orbits a central star and reflects the suns light. It's diameter can vary but is usually between 1,000 and 100,000 miles
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