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planet
  1. (now historical or astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. [from 14th c.]
  2. (astronomy) A body which orbits the Sun directly and is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (effectively meaning a spheroid) and to dominate its orbit; specifically, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto was considered a planet until 2006 and has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet.) [from 17th c.]
  3. A large body which directly orbits any star (or star cluster) but which has not attained nuclear fusion.
  4. In phrases such as the planet, this planet, sometimes refers to the Earth.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “If the planet has an atmosphere, it can be used for aerobraking to slow down the spacecraft, and this has been done at Mars.”
      “A planet in detriment or fall is in a precarious condition, more so if it is peregrine or otherwise afflicted.”
      “He stared, wide eyed, as the flames floated down to the planet below the aerial battle.”
planetoid
  1. (astronomy) An asteroid of any size
  2. (astronomy) An asteroid-like body in an orbit beyond the asteroid belt, such as a centaur or Kuiper belt object
  3. (astronomy) A larger, planetary, body in orbit around the Sun, such as Vesta or (candidate) dwarf planets such Eris or Sedna
  4. (astronomy) A dwarf planet
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The planetoid, believed to be half rock and half ice, is named after the Inuit goddess said to have created the sea creatures of the Arctic.”
      “Sedna, the planetoid 1,000 miles in diameter discovered several weeks ago, was first photographed with a small moon orbiting its icy sphere.”
      “A NASA funded team today announced the discovery of a planetoid located a mere 8 billion miles from Earth.”
planetarian
  1. (obsolete) astrologer
  2. An inhabitant of a planet
  3. An operator of a planetarium
planetarium
  1. A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.
  2. An orrery.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Over 150 people, including school and college students, turned up at the planetarium on Thursday evening to view the celestial bodies.”
      “He announced to his wife that he was going to educate the public by building a planetarium in the back room of their house.”
      “I loved to sit in the planetarium, just me beneath a million pinpricks of light.”
planetesimal
  1. (astronomy) Any of many small, solid astronomical objects, that orbit a star and form protoplanets through mutual gravitational attraction
  2. Examples:
    1. “After all, planetesimal sized portions of the Solar System cannot be considered to be orbiting the Earth, except in the obvious case of the Moon.”
      “His greatest contribution, however, was his planetesimal hypothesis of the origin of the planets.”
      “Models of planetesimal disks suggest that low relative velocities between the bodies produce accretion rather than fragmentation.”
planetophysics
  1. (astronomy) The branch of astrophysics dealing with planets and planetary systems; planetology
planetology
planetality
  1. (science fiction, rare) Membership of a particular planet or moon, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
planetquake
  1. A seismic event occurring on a planet (especially one other than Earth).
planetfall
  1. (science fiction) The arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of a planet.
planetography
  1. (astronomy) The branch of astronomy concerned with the description of the physical features of planets
planetcide
  1. The act of killing all living creatures on a planet.
planetscape
  1. The landscape of the surface of a planet.
planetdom
  1. (neologism) Those things that are planets; the state of being a planet.
planethood
  1. (astronomy) The state or condition of being a planet.
planetary
planetule
  1. A little planet.
planetesimals
  1. plural of planetesimal
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Kuiper belt and Oort cloud are populations of icy planetesimals located beyond the orbit of Neptune.”
      “Planet cores and terrestrial rocky planets would accrete from the planetesimals.”
      “Like the hills and valleys on a contour map the gravity wells of suns, planets, moons, and planetesimals showed up.”
planetaria
  1. plural of planetarium
planetarians
  1. plural of planetarian
planetquakes
  1. plural of planetquake
planetscapes
  1. plural of planetscape
planetariums
  1. plural of planetarium
planetoids
  1. plural of planetoid
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I didn't know all planets and planetoids were officially supposed to be named after gods of mythology.”
      “Speculation has taken place on the exploitation of the materials of planets and planetoids.”
      “This shorter rotation period is typical of planetoids in our solar system, requiring no external influences to explain.”
planetules
  1. plural of planetule
planetaries
  1. plural of planetary
planets
  1. plural of planet
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “How many planets does Person A have in water signs, how many in earth, how many in fire and how many in air?”
      “All the planets should have started warm, when gravitational energy was transformed into heat during planetary accretion.”
      “They presented a guide to the movement of the planets, the phases of the Moon and even the mythology of some famous constellations.”
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