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| | Articles - Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | A western exception is, naturally, Greece which uses the equivalent Greek gods´ names: Hermes (Mercury), Aphrodite (Venus), Gaia (Earth), Ares (Mars), Zeus (Jupiter), Cronus (Saturn), Ouranos (Uranus), Poseidon (Neptune), Pluton—not the expected Hades—(Pluto). |
 | | Exceptions include a number of planets discovered orbiting burned-out star remnants called pulsars, such as PSR B1257+12, the planets orbiting the stars Mu Arae, 55 Cancri and GJ 436 which are approximately Neptune-sized that is estimated to be about 6 to 8 times as massive as the Earth and is probably rocky in origin. |
 | | The discovery of a planet-sized satellite of a brown dwarf has blurred the distinction between "planet" and "star". |
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