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... III. Astronomers outside of England, however, did not approve of the name and could not agree upon an appropriate name for the planet. Many suggestions including Herschel, Astraea and even Neptune were considered. Finally, after almost forty years of disagreement, astronomers settled on the name Uranus after the Greek god Ouranos, the first supreme god of the heavens.
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... we can see with our eyes were seen and named by the ancient Greeks a long time ago. Naturally they used the names of their gods because they thought that the planets ...
Before astronomers decided on an official name for Neptune, it was just known as "the planet past Uranus". Astronomers suggested several names including Le Verrier's Planet, Janus, and Oceanus. Finally, in 1846, astronomers agreed upon the name Neptune after the Roman god of the sea.
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... -old Venetia Burney from Oxford, England, shortly after the planet's discovery in 1930. The name has a double significance. Pluto is the Greek god of the underworld, an appropriate name for a world at the dark outer edge of the solar system. Also, its first ...
The ancient Sumerians originally named Mercury Ubu-Idim-gud-ud. The ancient Greeks, thinking it was actually two different planets, ... when in the evening sky and Apollo when in the morning sky. Finally, the Romans named the planet after Mercury, the Roman god of trade, commerce, and most importantly, swiftness.
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Jupiter was named after the king of Olympus, a powerful figure in Roman mythology—also known as ... planet. The ancients referred to the planet as Enlil, Marduk, Udaltar, Mul-Babbar, and other names.
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The scientists who discovered this planet have proposed a name to the International Astronomical Union which will make the official decision. The scientists are awaiting this decision before announcing the permanent name of the new planet to the public.
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Yes, two chimpanzees were sent to space by the US. A chimpanzee Ham, was named after the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, New Mexico, where the chimpanzees lived and also in ...
... country, late on a summer night, you will see how the Milky Way got its name. There are so many stars, so close together and so far away, that they look ...
We don't know of any other universes, so they don't have names. When describing alternate universes, distance doesn't really have any meaning, as alternate universes, if ...
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