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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Planets

All the planets in our 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 in old days but rather the centre of the universe. The name planet comes from the Greek term 'palnetes', meaning 'wanderer', as ancient astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars.

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