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  Planet
All of the accepted planets in the solar system are named after Roman gods, except for Uranus, which is named after a Greek god, and the Earth which was not seen as a planet by the ancients (instead considered the centre of the universe).
Uranian planets, or ice giants, are a sub-class of gas giants, distinguished from true Jovians by their depletion in hydrogen and helium and a significant composition of rock and ice.
No interstellar planet is known to date, but their existence is considered a likely hypothesis based on computer simulations of the origin and evolution of planetary systems, which often include the ejection of bodies of significant mass.
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  Planet - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
All of the accepted planets in the solar system are named after Roman gods, except for Uranus, which is named after a Greek god, and the Earth which was not seen as a planet by the ancients (instead considered the centre of the universe).
Uranian planets, or ice giants, are a sub-class of gas giants, distinguished from true Jovians by their depletion in hydrogen and helium and a significant composition of rock and ice.
The discovery of a planet-sized satelite of a brown dwarf has blurred the distinction between "planet" and "moon." A brown dwarf, though a star in theory, in practice is often described as in between a planet and a star.
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 Planet
A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star that is not a star itself.
All the currently accepted planets in the solar system are named after Roman gods, except for Uranus (named after a Greek god) and the Earth, which was not seen as a planet by the ancients but rather the centre of the universe.
The eight largest planets (which are also the eight nearest to the Sun) are universally recognised as such, and for this reason are often universally referred to as "major planets", but there is controversy over Pluto and other smaller objects.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pl/planet.html   (2708 words)

  
 MDC:Disambiguation - MDC
Disambiguation in the MDC wiki is the process of resolving ambiguity, referring to the conflicts that occur when articles about two or more different topics have the same "natural" title.
Disambiguation pages should be created only to resolve ambiguity between two or more pages.
Disambiguation pages are hand-crafted by our editors to link to all of the various pages that a reader may be looking for when they search for an ambiguous term.
developer.mozilla.org /en/docs/MDC:Disambiguation   (710 words)

  
 Planet
Planets are thought to form from the collapsing nebula that a planet's star formed out of, aggregating from gas and dust that orbits the protostar in a dense protostellar disk before the star's core ignites and its solar wind blows the remaining material away.
Several hypothetical planet s, like Planet X (supposedly beyond the orbit of Pluto) or Vulcan (thought to orbit inside the orbit of Mercury), were posited at various historical times, and were subjects of intense searches that found nothing.
Almost all extrasolar planet s (those outside our solar system) discovered to date have masses which are about the same or larger than the gas giants within the solar system.
www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Planet.html   (1007 words)

  
 Planet information - Search.com
A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star.
All the currently accepted planets in the solar system are named after Roman gods, except for Uranus (named after a Greek god) and the Earth, which was not seen as a planet by the ancients but rather the centre of the universe.
A planet is a planemo orbiting a fusor
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 MDC:Disambiguation - MDC
Disambiguation pages are hand-crafted by our editors to link to all of the various pages that a reader may be looking for when they search for a particular ambiguous term.
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 Planet - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, there is some pressure for Pluto to be reclassified as a Kuiper Belt object, especially in light of the discovery of 2003 UB This object, however, has not yet received a definitive classification from the IAU.
However, the discovery in 2005 of 2003 UB (nicknamed Xena), with a size and mass larger than Pluto seems to have forced the issue.
The discovery of a planet-sized satellite of a brown dwarf has blurred the distinction between "planet" and "moon." A brown dwarf, though a star in theory, in practice is often described as in between a planet and a star.
www.voyager.in /Planet   (2565 words)

  
 karen07
However, the discovery in 2005 of 2003 UB313 (nicknamed Xena), with a size and mass larger than Pluto seems to have forced the issue.
As of September 2005 it has not yet been accepted as a planet, but the IAU is expected to announce a definition of a planet by the end of the year, which will either see 2003 UB313 become a planet, or have Pluto stripped of its status.
A portion of the solar disc is shown at the top.According to the authority of the IAU, there are nine planets in our solar system.
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