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  Planets in science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media, especially those of the science fiction genre, as story-settings or depicted locations.
Planets may be treated in different ways depending both on the interests of the author and the genre he or she is writing in.
Mor-Tax, a planet orbiting a dying star in the Pleiades, is a paradise planet, the homeworld of the aliens invading Earth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_planets   (4256 words)

  
 Star Wars: Planets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Cona is the native planet to the Arcona.
Kalee is a planet in the outer rim and is the homeworld of the Kaleesh and General Grievous.
Lwhekk is a lush jungle planet, and the homeworld of the reptilian Ssi-Ruuk and the P'w'eck.
www.starwars-episode3.net /starwars3/other-information/star-wars-planets   (8010 words)

  
 List of Star Trek planets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The planet was doomed to be struck by the asteroid Yonada.
The planet known to be dismal with overcast skies, nearly constant planet-wide torrential rainfall, deep swamps of rotting vegetation, and thick muddy rivers.
It was known as the "Planet of Galactic Peace" and was established as a neutral ground for negotiations between the three governments, however it quickly became an intergalactic cesspool of crime and poverty.
www.tocatch.info /en/Bynaus.htm   (13805 words)

  
 NASA's Cosmicopia -- Ask Us -- Planets and Moons
Planets move because the gas cloud that originally formed the solar system was spinning.
Once the planets formed and were in orbit about the Sun, there was no reason for them not to stay there (objects in motion tend to remain in motion).
Either the stars are far apart and the planet is close enough to one that the other star is just a small perturbation on it's orbit around the close star.
helios.gsfc.nasa.gov /qa_plan.html   (3421 words)

  
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Chusuk is the fourth planet of Theta Shalish.
A desert planet where it never rained at all in the time of Muad'dib (David Lynch to the contrary notwithstanding), it was to become verdant in the long, long reign of the Tyrant-only to be desiccated again after his demise.
In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase." [CD, page 32, the second ellipsis is Herbert's] Furthermore, one may remember the prediction of Leto II that the green Arrakis of his time could be reconverted by the sandtrout/sandworm back into desert Dune within 300 years.
www.projectrho.com /DuneGazetteer.txt   (17499 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Interview
Give us an example of a fictional planet that was created for the game that combines realism with sheer imagination.
The intent was that some huge creature died in outer space millions of years ago and the corpse couldn't escape the gravity of the planet and crash-landed.
Initially I wanted to overcome the simplified approach of fictional the planets where each planet would be devoted to one specific climate.
archive.gamespy.com /interviews/september02/eandbweek/day2   (703 words)

  
 The Celestia Motherlode: Fictional Craft and Worlds
This is a fictional solar system near Orion packed in 4 parts.
This is a pack of 8 fictional nebulae, to be used as backgrounds with any fictional systems.
Fictional rendentation of uranus's rings, with smoothed out edges and a blue-green coloring.
www.celestiamotherlode.net /catalog/fictional.php   (645 words)

  
 Globus Cassus - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Globus Cassus is a utopian project for the transformation of Planet Earth into a much bigger, hollow, artificial world with an ecosphere on its inner surface.
However, on planetary scale the proportions would be altered, with Globus Cassus being only slightly smaller than Saturn, the Solar System's second-largest planet.
Starting at four precisely defined points in the geostationary orbit, four space elevators are built.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/g/l/o/Globus_Cassus_c9eb.html   (734 words)

  
 Untitled-6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The web pages created in 1998 had the students taking their biome research and creating new worlds on distant planets.
Each class was given one planet containing one biome.
The students were then divided into groups and chose one of seven areas to develop.
ths.sps.lane.edu /biomes/Planets/planets.index.html   (75 words)

  
 Space Objects and Comets: Page 2 UFOseek directory for Space Objects and Comets
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
All of the planets can be seen with a small telescope; most can be seen with binoculars.
Comets are often described as "dirty snowballs" The Kuiper Belt and the more distant Oort Cloud are the solar system's two sources of comets Comets are solar-system leftovers that spend most of their lives far beyond the realm of the planets.
www.ufoseek.com /Space_Objects_and_Comets/more2.html   (597 words)

  
 The Celestia Motherlode: Orion's Arm Universe
Objects from the Orion's Arm collaborative fiction project.
A realistic texture for the planet Daedalus (Pi3 Ori).
A fictional rendition of the Milky Way Galaxy.
www.celestiamotherlode.net /catalog/fic_orionsarm.php   (115 words)

  
 Space art I made up myself
A few show "the forth moon of Yavin" (from the first _Star Wars_ movie), an Earth-like planet orbiting a Jupiter-like planet.
With the recent extrasolar planets discovered, a few are like Yavin in distance from their stars, the right distance to have a life-bearing "Earth" for a moon.
Click here for the extrasolar planets web site for current science fact discoveries.
www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/9178/space   (567 words)

  
 Johnston's Archive--Space Art
An index of cylindrical maps available on the Internet: while this is definitely not complete, it does identify 350 maps (including multiple versions of maps in different sizes).
The shapes, orientations, apparent sizes of the planets and moons, and sunlight directions are accurate for the views described.
While views with stars are more aesthetically pleasing, a person whose eyes are adapted to see bright planets and moons in the foreground generally won't be able to see stars.
www.johnstonsarchive.net /spaceart   (799 words)

  
 Archive of fictional things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
Fictional characters who are from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fictional characters from cartoons, comics, or graphic novels:
www.info-pedia.net /about/archive_of_fictional_things   (324 words)

  
 :: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online ::
IT is "a World of Seven Planets that draws visual and thematic inspiration from fairy tales, fantasy, science fiction novels and literary works involving a quest for truth and meaning."
The basic idea of the game is for players to form groups and compete for dominion over the seven planets.
Conquering all seven planets also means bagging the ultimate bragging rights, that of being the most powerful force in the universe.
www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/08/06/I2005080641165.html   (738 words)

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