What is the only major planet of the Solar System that takes its English name from Greek mythology?
"some combinations of semi-major axis and mass) and that its gravity dominates the outer edge of the Solar System, which is sufficient to make it a planet by current definitions. Jean-Luc Margot has also stated that Planet Nine satisfies his criteria and would qualify as a planet if and when it is detected. Brown speculates that the predicted planet is most probably an ejected ice giant, similar in composition to Uranus and Neptune: a mixture of rock and ice with a small envelope of gas. In fact, if it once orbited the region of the gas/ice giants, the planet probably"
"only planet whose name in English is not derived from Greco-Roman mythology. Because it was only generally accepted as a planet in the 17th century, there is no tradition of naming it after a god. (The same is true, in English at least, of the Sun and the Moon, though they are no longer generally considered planets.) The name originates from the 8th century Anglo-Saxon word ""erda"", which means ground or soil and was first used in writing as the name of the sphere of Earth perhaps around 1300. As with its equivalents in the other Germanic languages, it derives"
"be sacred to the principal god of Roman mythology, whose name comes from the Proto-Indo-European vocative compound *""Dyēu-pəter"" (nominative: *""Dyēus-pətēr"", meaning ""Father Sky-God"", or ""Father Day-God""). In turn, Jupiter was the counterpart to the mythical Greek ""Zeus"" (Ζεύς), also referred to as ""Dias"" (Δίας), the planetary name of which is retained in modern Greek. The ancient Greeks knew the planet as Phaethon, meaning ""shining one"". The astronomical symbol for the planet, , is a stylized representation of the god's lightning bolt. The original Greek deity ""Zeus"" supplies the root ""zeno-"", used to form some Jupiter-related words, such as ""zenographic"". ""Jovian"""
"from John Keats's ""On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"", are a reference to Herschel's discovery of Uranus. Many references to Uranus in English language popular culture and news involve humour about one pronunciation of its name resembling that of the phrase ""your anus"". Uranus Uranus (from the Latin name ""Ūranus"" for the Greek god Οὐρανός) is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have bulk chemical compositions which differ from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and"
"and south poles, therefore, lie where most other planets have their equators. In 1986, images from ""Voyager 2"" showed Uranus as an almost featureless planet in visible light, without the cloud bands or storms associated with the other giant planets. Observations from Earth have shown seasonal change and increased weather activity as Uranus approached its equinox in 2007. Wind speeds can reach . Uranus is the only planet whose name is derived directly from a figure from Greek mythology, from the Latinised version of the Greek god of the sky Ouranos. Like the classical planets, Uranus is visible to the"
"minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Demeter, the goddess of fruitful soil and agriculture. The official naming citation was mentioned in ""The Names of the Minor Planets"" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). Demeter is the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Ceres. When main-belt asteroid and dwarf planet 1 Ceres was named, the Greeks called it ""Demeter"" effectively translating the name into Greek, rather than using the Latin ""Ceres"" or the original Italian ""Cerere"". However, this created a problem when asteroid ""Demeter"" was named. The Greeks resolved this by using the classical form of the name, Δημήτηρ"
"of the system. The Beta Caeli system is similar to our real-life solar system, with a barren, rocky inner planet, terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of the inner system, followed by gas giants in the outer system that first increase and then decrease in size, and a tiny rock outermost. The naming of the Caelian planets closely matches that of naming planets in our solar system. But while our system uses the names of Roman deities (except for Uranus), Caeli has Greek ones; Gaea is the Greek goddess of the Earth, and Rhea is her daughter. In addition, as"
"Dysnomia (moon) Dysnomia (Greek: ""Δυσνομία"")—officially (136199) Eris I Dysnomia—is the only known moon of the dwarf planet Eris (the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System). It was discovered in 2005 by Mike Brown and the laser guide star adaptive optics team at the W. M. Keck Observatory, and carried the provisional designation of until officially named ""Dysnomia"" (from the Ancient Greek word meaning anarchy/lawlessness) after the daughter of the Greek goddess Eris. During 2005, the adaptive optics team at the Keck telescopes in Hawaii carried out observations of the four brightest Kuiper belt objects (Pluto, , ,"
"""Phosphorus"" in Ancient Greece was the name for the planet Venus and is derived from the Greek words (φῶς = light, φέρω = carry), which roughly translates as light-bringer or light carrier. (In Greek mythology and tradition, Augerinus (Αυγερινός = morning star, still in use today), Hesperus or Hesperinus (΄Εσπερος or Εσπερινός or Αποσπερίτης = evening star, still in use today) and Eosphorus (Εωσφόρος = dawnbearer, not in use for the planet after Christianity) are close homologues, and also associated with Phosphorus-the-planet). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the correct spelling of the element is phosphorus. The word phosphorous is"
"Neptune Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth and slightly larger than Neptune. Neptune orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years at an average distance of . It is named after the Roman god of the sea and has the astronomical symbol ♆, a stylised version of the"
"Phosphorus (morning star) Phosphorus (Greek ""Phōsphoros"") is the Morning Star, the planet Venus in its morning appearance. Φαοσφόρος (""Phaosphoros"") and Φαεσφόρος (""Phaesphoros"") are forms of the same name in some Greek dialects. This celestial object was named when stars and planets were not always distinguished with modern precision. Another Greek name for the Morning Star is Heosphoros (Greek ""Heōsphoros""), meaning ""Dawn-Bringer"". The form Eosphorus is sometimes met in English, as if from Ἠωσφόρος (""Ēōsphoros""), which is not actually found in Greek literature, but would be the form that Ἑωσφόρος would have in some dialects. As an adjective, the Greek word"
"Uranus Uranus (from the Latin name ""Ūranus"" for the Greek god Οὐρανός) is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have bulk chemical compositions which differ from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. For this reason, scientists often classify Uranus and Neptune as ""ice giants"" to distinguish them from the gas giants. Uranus' atmosphere is similar to Jupiter's and Saturn's in its primary composition of hydrogen and helium, but it contains more ""ices"" such as"
"the seventh day of the week. The name ""Sunday"", the day of the Sun, is derived from Hellenistic astrology, where the seven planets, known in English as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each had an hour of the day assigned to them, and the planet which was regent during the first hour of any day of the week gave its name to that day. During the 1st and 2nd century, the week of seven days was introduced into Rome from Egypt, and the Roman names of the planets were given to each successive day. Germanic"
"and the Vulcan Stonn in the episode ""Amok Time"". Montaigne was also considered for the original role of Spock on that series. James Sikking would later appear as Captain Styles in the film """" (1984). ""The most brilliant planet in our solar system is Venus, named for the Greek Love-Goddess. It is closer to Earth than any other planet — twenty-eight million miles away. Until sometime in the last half of the twentieth century it is still a planet shrouded in mystery, enveloped in a heavy blanket of clouds and steam. Because its surface temperature was believed to be several"
"In Greek, the name adopted was the Hellenic equivalent of Vesta, Hestia (); in English, that name is used for 46 Hestia (Greeks use the name ""Hestia"" for both, with the minor-planet numbers used for disambiguation). In Chinese, Vesta is called the 'hearth-god(dess) star', """", naming the asteroid for Vesta's role rather than literally transliterating her name into Chinese, as is done with other bodies discovered in modern times, including Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Upon its discovery, Vesta was, like Ceres, Pallas, and Juno before it, classified as a planet and given a planetary symbol. The symbol representing the altar"
"accepted by most astrologers. Uranus () is the ruling planet of Aquarius and is exalted in Scorpio. In classical Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky. The planet Uranus is very unusual among the planets in that it rotates on its side, so that it presents each of its poles to the Sun in turn during its orbit; causing both hemispheres to alternate between being bathed in light and lying in total darkness over the course of the orbit. Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the Sun, spending about 7 years in each sign of the zodiac. Uranus"
"Greek (Κῆτος, ""Kētos"") as well as Arabic (القيتوس, ""al Ḳaitoos"") and translates variously as a large fish, a whale, a shark, or a sea monster. In Greek mythology, the cetacean constellation, although not the star itself, represents the monster slain by Perseus in his rescue of the beautiful princess Andromeda. Many stars may be referred to in fictional works for their metaphorical or mythological associations, or else as bright points of light in the sky of Earth, but not as locations in space or the centers of planetary systems. The constellation Cetus lies close to the celestial equator and intersects"
"its namesake god's role as the ruler of the sea. In modern Greek the planet is called ""Poseidon"" (Ποσειδώνας, ""Poseidonas""), the Greek counterpart of Neptune. In Hebrew, ""Rahab"" (רהב), from a Biblical sea monster mentioned in the Book of Psalms, was selected in a vote managed by the Academy of the Hebrew Language in 2009 as the official name for the planet, even though the existing Latin term ""Neptun"" (נפטון) is commonly used. In Māori, the planet is called ""Tangaroa"", named after the Māori god of the sea. In Nahuatl, the planet is called ""Tlāloccītlalli"", named after the rain god"
"The other two are the Hyades and the Pleiades, and each of these clusters consists of hundreds of stars. In 2017, a massive star cluster was discovered only 10' from Sirius. It was discovered during a statistical analysis of Gaia data. The cluster is over a thousand times further away from us than the star system. The most commonly used proper name of this star comes from the Latin ""Sīrius"", from the Ancient Greek ""Σείριος"" (""Seirios"", ""glowing"" or ""scorcher""), although the Greek word itself may have been imported from elsewhere before the Archaic period, one authority suggesting a link with"
"sky have been named from ancient times. The scientific names are taken from the names given by the Romans: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Our own planet is usually named in English as Earth, or the equivalent in the language being spoken (for instance, two astronomers speaking French would call it ""la Terre""). However, it is only recently in human history that it has been thought of as a planet. Earth, when viewed as a planet, is sometimes also called by its Latin scientific conventional name ""Terra"", this name is especially prevalent in science fiction where the adjective terran"
"Classical planet In classical antiquity, the seven classical planets were the seven non-fixed astronomical objects in the sky visible to the naked eye: Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon. The word ""planet"" comes from two related Greek words, πλάνης ""planēs"" (whence πλάνητες ἀστέρες ""planētes asteres"" ""wandering stars, planets"") and πλανήτης ""planētēs"", both with the original meaning of ""wanderer"", expressing the fact that these objects move across the celestial sphere relative to the fixed stars. The term ""planet"" in modern terminology is only applied to natural satellites directly orbiting the Sun, so that of the seven classical"
"the Greco-Roman system of planetary hours, in which one of the seven heavenly bodies of the Solar System that were known in ancient times—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon—is given ""rulership"" over each day. The Romance languages (with the exception of Portuguese, that assigns an ordinal number to five days of the week, from Monday to Friday, beginning with ', and ending with ') preserve the original Latin names of each day of the week, except for Sunday, which came to be called "" (Lord's Day) under Christianity. This system for the days of the week"
"those of the Greeks and the Babylonians. In ancient Greece, the two great luminaries the Sun and the Moon were called ""Helios"" and ""Selene""; the farthest planet (Saturn) was called ""Phainon"", the shiner; followed by ""Phaethon"" (Jupiter), ""bright""; the red planet (Mars) was known as ""Pyroeis"", the ""fiery""; the brightest (Venus) was known as ""Phosphoros"", the light bringer; and the fleeting final planet (Mercury) was called ""Stilbon"", the gleamer. The Greeks also made each planet sacred to one among their pantheon of gods, the Olympians: Helios and Selene were the names of both planets and gods; Phainon was sacred to"
"Eris (dwarf planet) Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest (by volume) dwarf planet in the known Solar System. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its discovery was verified later that year. In September 2006 it was named after Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Eris is the ninth most massive object directly orbiting the Sun, and the 16th most massive overall, because seven moons are more massive than all known dwarf planets. It is also the largest which has not yet been visited"
"Greek camp at the Gas Giant's Lagrangian point, 60° ahead on its orbit . It is also a non-family asteroid of the Jovian background population. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.6–5.9 AU once every 12 years (4,374 days; semi-major axis of 5.23 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 8° with respect to the ecliptic. This minor planet was named after Nauplius, a son of Poseidon and Amymone. He was a king of Euboea and the father of Palamedes, who was killed after a false accusation by Odysseus during the Trojan War."
"of the sea, identified with the Greek Poseidon. The demand for a mythological name seemed to be in keeping with the nomenclature of the other planets, all of which, except for Earth, were named for deities in Greek and Roman mythology. Most languages today, even in countries that have no direct link to Greco-Roman culture, use some variant of the name ""Neptune"" for the planet. However, in Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean, the planet's name was translated as ""sea king star"" (), because Neptune was the god of the sea. In Mongolian, Neptune is called ""Dalain Van"" (Далайн ван), reflecting"
"0.07 for a centaur. It has an absolute magnitude of 9.4. This minor planet was named for the Cyllarus, a centaur of Greek mythology. The approved naming citation was published on 14 June 2003 (). 52975 Cyllarus 52975 Cyllarus (), provisionally designated , is a centaur orbiting in the outer Solar System. It was discovered on 12 October 1998, by American astronomer Nichole Danzl at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Sells, Arizona, in the United States. It was later named after the mythological creature Cyllarus. ""Cyllarus"" orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 16.3–36.0 AU"
"deity. The name ""Earth"" derives from the eighth century Anglo-Saxon word ""erda"", which means ground or soil. It became ""eorthe"" later, and then ""erthe"" in Middle English. These words are all cognates of Jörð, the name of the giantess of Norse myth. Earth was first used as the name of the sphere of the Earth in the early fifteenth century. The planet's name in Latin, used academically and scientifically in the West during the Renaissance, is the same as that of Terra Mater, the Roman goddess, which translates to English as Mother Earth. The standard astronomical symbol of the Earth"
"Latin word corresponding to Greek ""Phosphorus"" is ""Lucifer"". It is used in its astronomical sense both in prose and poetry. Poets sometimes personify the star, placing it in a mythological context. Phosphorus (morning star) Phosphorus (Greek ""Phōsphoros"") is the Morning Star, the planet Venus in its morning appearance. Φαοσφόρος (""Phaosphoros"") and Φαεσφόρος (""Phaesphoros"") are forms of the same name in some Greek dialects. This celestial object was named when stars and planets were not always distinguished with modern precision. Another Greek name for the Morning Star is Heosphoros (Greek ""Heōsphoros""), meaning ""Dawn-Bringer"". The form Eosphorus is sometimes met in English,"
"Planetary hours 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 in Hellenistic astrology, it has possible roots in older Babylonian astrology, and it is the origin of the names of the days of the week as used in English and numerous other languages. The classical planets are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. The planets take rulership over the hours in this sequence, known as the ""Chaldean order"" (listed from furthest to nearest in the planetary"
"find remarkable information such as that the Earth is round, it has an axis and it moves around it in one day, it has three climate zones and that the Sun magnetizes the Stars and planets. The name ""planet"" comes from the Greek term πλανήτης (""planētēs""), meaning ""wanderer"", as ancient astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars. Five planets can be seen with the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, the Greek names being Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus and Cronus. Sometimes the luminaries, the Sun and Moon, are added to"
"bodies have been named after elements of Greek mythology. The constellation of Scorpius represents the scorpion that attacked Hercules and the scorpions that frighted the horses when Phaëton was driving the sun-chariot; while Capricorn may represent Pan in a myth that tells of his escape from Typhon by jumping into the water while turning into an animal - the half in the water turned into a fish and the other half turned into a goat. 1108 Demeter, a main-belt asteroid discovered by Karl Reinmuth on May 31, 1929, is named after the Greek goddess of fruitful soil and agriculture. The"
"Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants; the other two giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, are ice giants. Jupiter has been known to astronomers since antiquity. It is named after the Roman god Jupiter. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.94, bright enough for its reflected light to cast shadows, and making it"