Planets Sentence Examples

I look for the day when a billion planets are populated with a billion people each.

The planets in question appeared in the telescope as star-like objects which could be compared with the stars with much greater accuracy than a planetary disk like that of Mars, the apparent form of which was changed by its varying phase, due to the different directions of the sun's illumination.

The first great fact to be noticed is that the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction.

He had not attempted to include in his calculations the orbital variations of the disturbing bodies; but Lagrange, by the happy artifice of transferring the origin of coordinates from the centre of the sun to the centre of gravity of the sun and planets, obtained a simplification of the formulae, by which the same analysis was rendered equally applicable to each of the planets severally.

When he's running around destroying planets, I cannot help him.

The planets were shown to have visible disks, and to be attended by satellites whose distance and position angle relative to the planet it was desirable to measure.

The result of this would be seen in the motions of the planets around the sun; but the most refined observations show no such effect.

Outside of this group lies the zone of minor planets or asteroids.

Such a reduced and impoverished star is a planet; and the several planets of our solar system are the several vortices which from time to time have been swept up by the central sun-vortex.

To the south-west of the Forum are the remains of three small temples, one dedicated to Venus, and a well-preserved Mithraeum, with mosaics representing the seven planets, &c. To the south-west again is the conspicuous brick cella of a lofty temple, on arched substructures, generally supposed to be that of Vulcan, with a threshold block of africano (Euboean) marble over 15 ft.

By Ur, Ruha, while P'tahil was engaged in his work of creation, became mother of three sets of seven, twelve and five sons respectively; all were translated by P'tahil to the heavenly firmament (like the Archons of Mani), the first group forming the planets and the next the signs of the zodiac, while the third is as yet undetermined.

Of the names of the planets Estera (Ishtar Venus, also called Ruha d'Qudsha, "holy spirit"), Enba (Nebo, Mercury), Sin (moon), Kewan (Saturn), Bil (Jupiter), and Nirig (Nirgal, Mars) reveal their Babylonian origin; Il or Il Il, the sun, is also known as Kadush and Adunay (the Adonai of the Old Testament); as lord of the planetary spirits his place is in the midst of them; they are the source of all temptation and evil amongst men.

In the Mandaean representation the sky is an ocean of water, pure and clear, but of more than adamantine solidity, upon which the stars and planets sail.

The total duration of the earth they fix at four hundred and eighty thousand years, divided into seven epochs, in each of which one of the planets rules.

In addition to the works already mentioned, his Cosmotheoros- a speculation concerning the inhabitants of the planets - was printed posthumously at the Hague in 1698, and appeared almost simultaneously in an English translation.

In astronomical practice the masses of the planets are commonly expressed as fractions of the mass of the sun, the latter being taken as unity.

As a matter of fact, I think we're on completely different planets.

She didn't see any glowing blue planets.

The houses of the planets, as well as the earth and a second world immediately to the north of it, rest upon anvils laid by Hibil on the belly of Ur.

The failure of the method based on transits of Venus led to an international effort carried out on the initiative of Sir David Gill to measure the parallax by observations on those minor planets which approach nearest the earth.

From the meridian observations of the same planets made for the purpose of controlling the elements of motion of the planets Auwers found it = 8.806".

The discovery of these laws is only possible when we have quite abandoned the attempt to find the cause in the will of some one man, just as the discovery of the laws of the motion of the planets was possible only when men abandoned the conception of the fixity of the earth.

The bodies of this class consist of eight major planets moving round the sun at various distances, and of an unknown number of minor planets, much smaller than the major planets, forming a separate group. Thirdly, satellites, or secondary planets revolving around the major planets, and therefore accompanying them in their revolutions around the sun.

The major planets are separated into two groups of four each, between which the minor planets, for the most part, revolve.

But there is an obvious gap between the two groups of major planets which is filled by the group of minor planets.

The Brains set up the Planetary Council-- the alien version of the United Nations-- several generations before to mediate between the warring planets within the Five Galaxies.

They did not dedicate each day in turn to its astrological planet; and it is therefore precarious to assume that the Sabbath was in its origin what it is in the astrological week, the day sacred to Saturn, and that its observance is to be derived from an ancient Hebrew worship of that planet.4 The week, however, is found in various parts of the world in a form that has nothing to do with astrology or the seven planets, and with such a distribution as to make it pretty certain that it had no artificial origin, but suggested itself independently, and for natural reasons, to different races.

If the consolidation took place with comparative uniformity we might then anticipate the formation of a vast multitude of small planets such as those we actually do find in the region between the orbit of Mars and that of Jupiter.

In this way we account most simply for the uniformity in the direction in which the planets revolve, and for the mutual proximity of the planes in which their orbits are contained.

Details as to each are found under the respective names of the several planets.

Arago made many measures of the diameters of the planets with such a micrometer.

Thus in 1864 the spectroscope yielded him evidence that planetary and irregular nebulae consist of luminous gas - a conclusion tending to support the nebular hypothesis of the origin of stars and planets by condensation from glowing masses of fluid material.

The Chaldaeans chose three stars in each sign to be the " councillor gods" of the planets."

In the Bundahish, however (9th century), the twelve " Akhtars," designated by the same names as our signs, lead the army of Ormazd, while the seven " Awakhtars " or planets (including a meteor and a comet) fight for Ahriman.

The successive entries of the moon and planets into the nakshatras (the ascertainment of which was of great astrological importance) were fixed by means of their conjunctions with the yogataras.

With the respective and relative positions in the zodiac of the sun, moon and planets, the character of their action 1 Whitney, Notes to Surya-Siddhanta, p. zoo.

The decans are ranged on the outermost of its five concentric zones; the planets and the Greek zodiac in duplicate occupy the next three; while the inner circle is unaccountably reserved for the Chinese cyclical animals.

He was one of the evil demons of the seven planets, the Maskim of the ancient Akkadian religion, a conception transmitted through the Chaldeans, the Babylonians and the Jewish Kabbala to medieval and modern astrologers and magicians.

Aethers were invented for the planets to swim in, to constitute electric atmospheres and magnetic effluvia, to convey sensations from one part of our bodies to another, and so on, till all space had been filled three or four times over with aethers.

He also took a leading part in the discovery of the minor planets, re-identified Ceres on the 1st of January 1802, and detected Pallas on the 28th of March following.

What is thus shown to be possible would, of course, be necessary if we went on, with the astronomer Kepler, to identify the star of the Magi with the conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn which occurred, in the constellation Pisces, in May, October and December of 7 B.C.'

Abarbanel (Abrabanel), records that the conjunction of these particular planets in this particular constellation was to be a sign of Messiah's coming.

In the Mandaean speculations the Seven are introduced with the Babylonian names of the planets.

In free space, light of all wave-lengths is propagated with the same velocity, as is shown by the fact that stars, when occulted by the moon or planets, preserve their white colour up to the last moment of disappearance, which would not be the case if one colour reached the eye later than another.

He early attained to the settled conviction that for the actual disposition of the solar system some abstract intelligible reason must exist, and this, after much meditation, he believed himself to have found in an imaginary relation between the "five regular solids" and the number and distances of the planets.

But the main purport of the treatise was the exposition of an elaborate system of celestial harmonies depending on the various and varying velocities of the several planets, of which the sentient soul animating the sun was the solitary auditor.

Among his happy conjectures may be mentioned that of the sun's axial rotation, postulated by him as the physical cause of the revolutions of the planets, and soon after confirmed by the discovery of sun-spots; the suggestion of a periodical variation in the obliquity of the ecliptic; and the explanation as a solar atmospheric effect of the radiance observed to surround the totally eclipsed sun.

The principles which explain the fall of an apple will not do for the planets.

It is thus with the motions of the planets going through their revolutions.

We begin by showing what the actual fact is in the case of these two planets.

He also peopled the planets with souls and genii.

In fact old brown dwarfs can look a lot like large planets.

Here, three or more planets conjunct each other within close succession.

Think, if you like, of the planets as a performing troupe.

All the major planets and many of the minor planets revolve in elliptic g FIG.

It has taken decades to encounter Earth-like planets.

After a rough estimate of the perturbations it must sustain from the attraction of the planets, he predicted its return for 1757,-a bold prediction at that time, but justified by the event, for the comet again made its appearance as was expected, though it did not pass through its perihelion till the month of March 1759, the attraction of Jupiter and Saturn having caused, as was computed by Clairault previously to its return, a retardation of 618 days.

It might have been suggested by the phases of the moon, or by the number of the planets known in ancient times, an origin which is rendered more probable from the names universally given to the different days of which it is composed.

In the Egyptian astronomy, the order of the planets, beginning with the most remote, is Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon.

He quotes as an instance that Newton in this way added to the planetary appearances contained in Kepler's laws the gravitation of the planets to the sun, as a notion of causality not contained in the appearances, and thus discovered that gravitation is the cause of the appearances.

The regularity of their diurnal revolutions could not escape notice, and a good deal was known 2000 years ago about the motions of the sun and moon and planets among the stars.

As a law of acceleration of the planets relatively to the sun, its approximate agreement with Kepler's third law of planetary motion follows readily from a consideration of the character of the acceleration of a point moving uniformly in a circle.

Besides the sun and moon, five planets, thirty-six dekans, and constellations to which animal and other forms are given, appear in the early astronomical texts and paintings.

Accordingly, as soon as all the great planets had disappeared, a new constellation was perceived to have risen, and all the stars in it had been lighted by the enthusiasm of Brandes.

Anthropology treats of the mind in union with the body - of the natural soul - and discusses the relations of the soul with the planets, the races of mankind, the differences of age, dreams, animal magnetism, insanity and phrenology.

The essential feature of this astral theology is the assumption of a close link between the movements going on in the heavens and occurrences on earth, which led to identifying the gods and goddesses with heavenly bodies - planets and stars, besides sun and moon - and to assigning the seats of all the deities in the heavens.

To read the signs of the heavens was therefore to understand the meaning of occurrences on earth, and with this accomplished it was also possible to foretell what events were portended by the position and relationship to one another of sun, moon, planets and certain stars.

In another division of the religious literature of Babylonia which is largely represented in Assur-bani-pal's collection - the myths and legends - tales which originally symbolized the change of seasons, or in which historical occurrences are overcast with more or less copious admixture of legend and myth, were transferred to the heavens, and so it happens that creation myths, and the accounts of wanderings and adventures of heroes of the past, are referred to movements among the planets and stars as well as to occurrences or supposed occurrences on earth.

Men speculate about the analogy between Mars and the earth, and infer that it is inhabited, without troubling about all the planets.

Much of the Principia consists of synthetical deductions from definitions and axioms. But the discovery of the centripetal force of the planets to the sun is an analytic deduction from the facts of their motion discovered by Kepler to their real ground, and is so stated by Newton in the first regressive order of Aristotle - P-M, S-P, S-M.

Newton did indeed first show synthetically what kind of motions by mechanical laws have their ground in a centripetal force varying inversely as the square of the distance (all P is M); but his next step was, not to deduce synthetically the planetary motions, but to make a new start from the planetary motions as facts established by Kepler's laws and as examples of the kind of motions in question (all S is P); and then, by combining these two premises, one mechanical and the other astronomical, he analytically deduced that these facts of planetary motion have their ground in a centripetal force varying inversely as the squares of the distances of the planets from the sun (all S is M).

It is noticeable that Wundt quotes Newton's discovery of the centripetal force of the planets to the sun as an instance of this supposed hypothetical, analytic, inductive method; as if Newton's analysis were a hypothesis of the centripetal force to the sun, a deduction of the given facts of planetary motion, and a verification of the hypothesis by the given facts, and as if such a process of hypothetical deduction could be identical with either analysis or induction.

The planets are near, and we know it by their not twinkling, 2 but science must conceive their nearness as the cause of their not twinkling and make the Arius in the real order the middle term of its syllogism.

It is expressed by the statement that the proportionate distances of the several planets from the sun may be represented by adding 4 to each term of the series; o, 3, 6, 12, 24, &c. The irregularity will be noticed of the first term, which should be 12 instead of o.

Mercury and Venus were also studied, and he concluded that these planets rotated on their axes in the same time as they revolved about the sun; but these views are questioned.

It need not be infinitely small, or even small compared with ordinary standards; thus in astronomy such vast bodies as the sun, the earth, and the other planets can for many purposes be treated merely as points endowed with mass.

A valuable summary of a considerable part of this work, containing an account of the methods adopted, the materials employed, and the resulting values of the various quantities involved, was published in 1895, as a supplement to the American Ephemeris for 1897, entitled The Elements of the Four Inner Planets and the Fundamental Constants of Astronomy.

Associated with the Sky are tablets to the sun and moon, the seven stars of the Great Bear, the five planets, the twenty-eight constellations, and all the stars of heaven; tablets to clouds, rain, wind and thunder being placed next to that of the moon.

It is thus that Fechner in his "day-view" of things sees in plants and planets the same fundamental "soul" as in us - that is, "one simple being which appears to none but itself, in us as elsewhere wherever it occurs self-luminous, dark for every other eye, at the least connecting sensations in itself, upon which, as the grade of soul mounts higher and higher, there is constructed the consciousness of higher and still higher relations."

He is the reputed inventor besides of two instruments to enable sailors "to find out the latitude without seeing of sun, moon or stars," an account of which is given in Thomas Blondeville's Theoriques of the Planets (London, 1602).

In 1809 he published at Hamburg his Theoria motus corporum coelestium, a work which gave a powerful impulse to the true methods of astronomical observation; and his astronomical workings, observations, calculations of orbits of planets and comets, &c., are very numerous and valuable.

In the case of the planets it is the period between successive conjunctions of the same kind, inferior or superior, with the sun.

Owing to the action of the planets, especially Venus and Jupiter, on the earth, the centre of gravity of the earth and moon deviates by a yet minuter amount, generally one or two tenths of a second, from the plane of the ecliptic proper.

Owing to the action of the planets, the position of the ecliptic is subject to a slow secular variation amounting, during our time, to nearly 47" per century.

Richter appears to have been the first to propound the idea that life came to this planet as cosmic dust or in meteorites thrown off from stars and planets.

He maintained in the first that the world, created when the seven planets were in conjunction in the first degree of Aries, will come to an end at a like conjunction in the last degree of Pisces.

God reveals to Enoch the history of the creation of the earth and the seven planets and circles of the heaven and of man, the story of the fallen angels, the duration of the world through 7000 years, and its millennium of rest.

The energy which the sun pours out into space is, so far as we know, and except for the minute fraction intercepted by the disks of the planets (ii?oooo") absolutely lost for the pur.

The sun is a small target for a meteorite coming from infinity to hit, and if this considerable quantity reaches its mark, a much greater amount will circulate round the sun in parabolas, and there is no evidence of it where it would certainly make itself felt, in perturbations of the planets.

These planets are more remote than Mars, but that loss is more than outweighed by the fact that they are indistinguishable in appearance from stars.

In 1755 Euler had been elected a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and some time afterwards the academical prize was adjudged to three of his memoirs Concerning the Inequalities in the Motions of the Planets.

Johann Kepler had proved by an elaborate series of measurements that each planet revolves in an elliptical orbit round the sun, whose centre occupies one of the foci of the orbit, that the radius vector of each planet drawn from the sun describes equal areas in equal times, and that the squares of the periodic times of the planets are in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.

Newton, by calculating from Kepler's laws, and supposing the orbits of the planets to be circles round the sun in the centre, had already proved that the force of the sun acting upon the different planets must vary as the inverse square of the distances of the planets from the sun.

I was apt to suspect there might be some cause or other unknown to me which might disturb the sesquialteral proportions, for the influences of the planets one upon another seemed not great enough, though I imagined Jupiter's influence greater than your numbers determine it.

That in one of my papers writ (I cannot say in what year, but I am sure some time before I had any correspondence with Mr Oldenburg, and that's above fifteen years ago), the proportion of the forces of the planets from the sun, reciprocally duplicate of their distances from him, is expressed, and the proportion of our gravity to the moon's conatus recedendi a centro terrae is calculated, though not accurately enough.

Oscil., a copy being presented to me, in my letter of thanks to him I gave those rules in the end thereof a particular commendation for their usefulness in Philosophy, and added out of my aforesaid paper an instance of their usefulness, in comparing the forces of the moon from the earth, and earth from the sun; in determining a problem about the moon's phase, and putting a limit to the sun's parallax, which shews that I had then my eye upon comparing the forces of the planets arising from their circular motion, and understood it; so that a while after, when Mr Hooke propounded the problem solemnly, in the end of his attempt to prove the motion of the earth, if I had not known the duplicate proportion before, I could not but have found it now.

Between ten and eleven years ago there was an hypothesis of mine registered in your books, wherein I hinted a cause of gravity towards the earth, sun and planets, with the dependence of the celestial motions thereon; in which the proportion of the decrease of gravity from the superficies of the planet (though for brevity's sake not there expressed) can be no other than reciprocally duplicate of the distance from the centre.

He was anxious to improve the work by additions to the theory of the motion of the moon and the planets.

Using a powerful and elaborate analysis, Adams ascertained that this cluster of meteors, which belongs to the solar system, traverses an elongated ellipse in 334 years, and is subject to definite perturbations from the larger planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

Those known to be revolving round certain of the stars are far larger in proportion to their central bodies than our planets are in respect to the sun; for were it otherwise we should never be able to detect their existence.

Even in the case of the planets, the variations in the form and position of the orbits are so slow that long periods of observation are required for their correct determination.

But when definitive results as to the orbits are required, it is necessary to compute the perturbations produced by such of the major planets as have affected the motions of the body.

Conversely, assuming this law of attraction, it can be shown that the planets will move according to Kepler's laws.

The precision with which the path of an eclipse is laid down years in advance cannot but imbue the minds of men with a high sense of the perfection reached by astronomical theories; and the discovery, by purely mathematical processes, of the changes which the orbits and motions of the planets are to undergo through future ages is more impressive the more fully one apprehends the nature of the problem.

The fundamental hypothesis of the science assumes a system of bodies in motion, of which the sun and planets may be taken as examples, and of which each separate body is attracted toward all the others according to the law of Newton.

It is quite evident that Kepler's laws do not in themselves enable us to determine the actual motion of the planets.

Kepler's third law therefore expresses the fact that the mass of the sun is the same for all the planets, and deviates from the truth only to the extent that the masses of the latter differ from each other by quantities which are only a small fraction of the mass of the sun.

The result of these conditions is that all the quantities required admit of development in series proceeding according to the powers of the eccentricities and inclinations of the orbits, and the ratio of the masses of the several planets to the mass of the sun.

We first conceive of the planets as moving in invariable elliptic orbits, and thus obtain approximate expressions for their positions at any moment.

But the variations thus determined will not be rigorously exact, because the pull from which they arise has been determined on the supposition that the planets are moving in unvarying orbits, whereas the actual pull depends on the actual position of the planets.

Although this is true when there are any number of bodies moving in the same plane, the fact is that the planets move in slightly different planes.

The first depend on the mean longitudes of the planets, and always tend back to their original values when the planets return to their original positions in their orbits.

In the problems of celestial mechanics the angles within the parentheses are represented by sums or differences of multiples of the mean longitudes of the planets as they move round their orbits.

Let us now consider the effect of this relation upon the configurations and relations of the two planets.

Let the line CJ represent the common direction of the two planets from the sun when they are in conjunction, and let us follow the motions until they again come into conjunction.

The result of these repetitions is that, during a number of revolutions, the special mutual actions of the two planets at these three points of their orbits repeat themselves, while the actions corresponding to the three intermediate arcs are wanting.

The result of the continued action of the two planets upon each other is that during half of this period the motion of one planet is constantly retarded and of the other constantly accelerated, while during the other half the effects are reversed.

Such tables are used in the offices of the national Ephemerides to construct ephemerides of the several planets, showing their exact positions in the sky from day to day.

Such a form we all know to be that of the earth and of the planets rotating on their axes.

Actually the curve in which it moves is nearly a circle; but the distance varies slightly owing to the minute secular variation in the position of the ecliptic, caused by the action of the planets.

The action of the sun upon the satellites of the several planets and the effects of this action are of the same general nature.

The practical methods of computing perturbations of the planets and satellites were first exhaustively developed by Pierre Simon Laplace in his Mecanique celeste.

They copied the Ba by Ionian asterisms, appropriated Babylonian knowledge of the planets and their courses, and learned to predict eclipses by means of the " Saros."

In the Ephemerides published year by year, the times of new moon were given, together with the calculated intervals to the first visibility of the crescent, from which the beginning of each month was reckoned; the dates and circumstances of solar and lunar eclipses were predicted; and due information was supplied as to the forthcoming heliacal risings and settings, conjunctions and oppositions of the planets.

The sun and moon and the five planets were, with this end in view, accommodated each with a set of variously revolving spheres, to the total number of 27.

He compiled the Hakimite Tables of the planets, and observed at Cairo, in 977 and 978, two solar eclipses which, as being the first recorded with scientific accuracy, 4 were made available in fixing the amount of lunar acceleration.

The sun too remained stationary, while the planets, including our own globe, circulated round him.

These two principles he extended, by direct proof, to the motion of the earth; and, by analogy, to that of the other planets.

It states that the squares of the periods of circulation round the sun of the several planets are in the same ratio as the cubes of their mean distances.

Gravitation was thus shown to be the sole influence governing the movements of planets and satellites; the figure of the rotating earth was successfully explained by its action on the minuter particles of matter; tides and the precession of the equinoxes proved amenable to reasonings based on the same principle; and it satisfactorily accounted as well for some of the chief lunar and planetary inequalities.

A periodic character was thus indicated for the disturbance; and Laplace assigned its true cause in the near approach to commensurability in the periods of the two planets, the cycle of disturbance completing itself in about goo (more accurately 929) years.

Its purpose is the attainment of so complete a power of prediction that the places of the sun, moon and planets may be assigned without noticeable error for an indefinite future time.

Those relating to the moon and planets, corrected by Sir George Airy, 1840-1846, form part of the standard materials for discussing theories of movement in the solar system.

Sir David Gill derived a highly satisfactory value of 8.78" for the long-sought constant from the opposition of Mars in 1877, and from combined heliometer observations at five observatories in 1888-1889 of the minor planets Iris, Victoria and Sappho, the apparently definitive value of 8.80" (equivalent distance, 92,874,000 m.).

Practical astronomy was only secondarily concerned with the addition of Neptune, on the 23rd of September 1846, to the company of known planets; but William Lassell's Lassa.

Y positions of the heavenly bodies in space, and the changes of those positions with time, constitute the primary subject of investigation by the elder school; while the new astronomy concerns itself chiefly with the individual peculiarities of suns and planets, with their chemistry, physical habitudes and modes of luminosity.

Corresponding to this observed fact was the inference that the action of the planets might in some way influence the moon's motion.

It is also found by computation from theory that the planets do produce several appreciable inequalities of long period, as well as a great number of short period, in the motion of the moon.

This suggests that inequalities in the action of the planets may have been still overlooked, the subject being the most intricate with which celestial mechanics has to deal.

In ancient astronomy the firmament was the eighth sphere containing the fixed stars surrounding the seven spheres of the planets.

Even later, when the telescope was the only instrument of research, knowledge on this subject was confined to the appearances presented by the planets, supplemented by more or less probable inferences as to the nature of their surfaces.

Probabilities also seem to favour the view that this may, to a certain extent, be true of the four great planets of our system.

The outcome of this drawback is that our knowledge of the chemical constitution of the stars and planets is still confined to their atmospheres, and that conclusions as to the constitution of the interior masses which form them must be drawn by other methods than the spectroscopic one.

He perceived the analogy between the power which holds the moon in the neighbourhood of the earth, and compels Jupiter's satellites to circulate round their primary, and the attraction exercised by the earth on bodies at its surface; 1 but he failed to conceive the combination of central force with tangential velocity, and was disposed to connect the revolutions of the planets with the axial rotation of the sun.

More valid instances of the anticipation of modern discoveries may be found in his prevision that a small annual parallax would eventually be found for some of the fixed stars, and that extra-Saturnian planets would at some future time be ascertained to exist, and in his conviction that light travels with a measurable, although, in relation to terrestrial distances, infinite velocity.

If moon and sun, whose regular movements conveyed to the more intelligent minds the conception of the reign of law and order in the universe as against the more popular notion of chance and caprice, were divine powers, the same held good of the planets, whose movements, though more difficult to follow, yet in the course of time came to be at least partially understood.

Of the planets five were recognized - Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Mars - to name them in the order in which they appear in the older cuneiform literature; in later texts Mercury and Saturn change places.

The movements of the sun, moon and five planets were regarded as representing the activity of the five gods in question, together with the moon-god Sin and the sun-god Shamash, in preparing the occurrences on earth.

The Babylonian priests accordingly applied themselves to the task of perfecting a system of interpretation of the phenomena to be observed in the heavens, and it was natural that the system was extended from the moon, sun and five planets to the more prominent and recognizable fixed stars.

Applying the same method of careful observation to the sun and planets, and later to some of the constellations and to many of the fixed stars, it will be apparent that the body of observations noted must have grown in the course of time to large and indeed to enormous proportions, and correspondingly the interpretations assigned to the nearly endless variations in the phenomena thus observed.

The endeavour to trace the horoscope of the individual from the position of the planets and stars at the time of birth (or, as was attempted by other astrologers, at the time of conception) represents the most significant contribution of the Greeks to astrology.

Colours, metals, stones, plants, drugs and animal life of all kinds were associated with the planets and placed under their tutelage.

In the same way stones were connected with both the planets and the months; plants, by diverse association of ideas, were connected with the planets, and animals likewise were placed under the guidance and protection of one or other of the heavenly bodies.

The fate of the individual, as that feature of the future which had a supreme interest, led to the association of the planets with parts of the body.

Saturn, taking in Greek astrology the place at the head of the planets which among the Babylonians was accorded to JupiterMarduk, was given a place in the brain, which in later times was looked upon as the centre of soul-life; Venus, as the planet of the passion of love, was supposed to reign supreme over the genital organs, the belly and the lower limbs; Mars, as the violent planet, is associated with the bile, as well as with the blood and kidneys.

From the planets the same association of ideas was applied to the constellations of the zodiac, which in later phases of astrology are placed on a par with the planets themselves, so far as their importance for the individual horoscope is concerned.

The fate of the individual in this combination of planets with the zodiac was made dependent not merely upon the planet which happened to be rising at the time of birth or of conception, but also upon its local relationship to a special sign or to certain signs of the zodiac. The zodiac was regarded as the prototype of the human body, the different parts of which all had their corresponding section in the zodiac itself.

With human anatomy thus connected with the planets, with constellations, and with single stars, medicine became an integral part of astrology, or, as we might also put it, astrology became the handmaid of medicine.

Diseases and distrubances of the ordinary functions of the organs were attributed to the influence of planets or explained as due to conditions observed in a constellation or in the position of a star; and an interesting survival of this bond between astrology and medicine is to be seen in the use up to the present time of the sign of Jupiter 4., which still heads medicinal prescriptions, while, on the other hand, the influence of planetary lore appears in the assignment of the days of the week to the planets, beginning with Sunday, assigned to the sun, and ending with Saturday, the day of Saturn.

Among the Arabs similar associations of lucky and unlucky days directly connected with the influence of the planets prevailed through all times, Tuesday and Wednesday, for instance, being regarded as the days for blood-letting, because Tuesday was connected with lIars, the lord of war and blood, and Wednesday with Mercury, the planet of humours.

Huygens contends that between the inhabitants of different planets there need not be any greater difference than exists between men of different types on the earth.

His aspect of the heavens told him that in that year three planets would meet in the aqueous sign of Pisces.

Joseph de Maistre believed in comets as messengers of divine justice, and in animated planets, and declared that divination by astrology is not an absolutely chimerical science.

The influence of a particular planet has also lef t traces in various languages; but the French and English jovial and the English saturnine correspond rather to the gods who served as types in chiromancy than to the planets which bear the same names.

The influence of Saturn comes next in determining it, that of all the other planets is much smaller.

Of supreme importance is the fertile conception of the planets revolving about the sun in elliptic orbits.

The Sumerians and Accadians, the non-Semitic inhabitants of the Euphrates valley prior to the Babylonians, described the stars collectively as a " heavenly flock "; the sun was the " old sheep "; the seven planets were the " old-sheep stars "; the whole of the stars had certain " shepherds, " and Sibzianna (which, according to Sayce and Bosanquet, is the modern Arcturus, the brightest star in the northern sky) was the " star of the shepherds of the heavenly herds."

They'd trained together on one of the Council's neutral planets and ended up rivals in everything.

I didn't believe the planets died without the dhjan and his lifemate until I saw what happened to Anshan.

He fought hard to build alliances the Council destroyed, and bartered, cheated, and stole for the weaponry needed to defeat the invaders, the Yirkin, a sophisticated race whose goal was to claim as many planets as they could in their empire-building.

The Council disallowed lasers or other advanced weapons, instead opting for the traditional weapons of their ancestors, and the only weapons some planets with their crude civilizations in the nearby galaxies used.

Earth and the other planets are warming from the inside after Vulcan passed aphelion.

Try living with four planets in Capricorn (including Sun and Saturn) and a Capricorn ascendant.

Objects in our own solar system - including planets and comets - are also revealed in much greater detail by infrared astronomy.

The young stars may be surrounded by disks of dusty material which might eventually congeal into planets.

A short while later it arrived in the UK, only to pale into woeful insignificance alongside the roughly coterminous Battle of the Planets.

It also discusses electromagnetism, Solar magnetism, dynamo theory, ocean floor magnetization, and the magnetospheres of the Earth and the planets.

The giant planets in the outer parts of the solar system all have strong magnetic fields.

In the case of the Kepler Mission about 1000 of our target stars should have giant inner planets.

In the next few years, ground-based interferometers will be completed that can image large extrasolar planets.

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Studying planetary magnetic fields enables us to explore what is happening deep inside the planets.

The impact of millions to billions of carbonaceous meteorites in the early solar system may have replenished the water supply on the terrestrial planets.

He will often stare at the cream dissolving in his coffee, forming specific nebulae, sometimes planets.

Examples include finding novae, SNRs, or minor planets using a blink photometer.

A giant robot ship has wandered into the galaxy and is destroying planets in its path, digesting the debris for fuel.

According to Dr. Pollacco, mankind has barely started to discover planets.

The European Space Agency's infrared space observatory, ISO has shown that the formation of extrasolar planets must be a very common event.

Understanding Mercury, and the forces that have shaped it, is fundamental to understanding the terrestrial planets and their evolution.

Another factor which has helped to involve more scientists is the interest by NASA in exploring the planets using robotic probes.

By this date the crescent Moon will have joined the retinue of planets - see Dia.

In our solar system, the astronomy of the inner planets (Venus and Mercury) suggests that Einsteinian space-time is influencing them.

The telescopes would combine infrared light to produce high-resolution spectra of the atmospheres of distant planets.

Gravity attracts matter together into spherical stars, like the Sun, and nearly spherical planets like our Earth.

Now, we take the planets and stars as our language, rather than cards or yarrow stalks or lines on the hands.

Saturn is the most distant of the five planets known to ancient stargazers.

After formation is complete, the surfaces of planets continue to be modified by surface processes including tectonics and volcanism.

For example, in 2001, UK astronomers, using the Anglo-Australian telescope, discovered three planets orbiting another star.

Projected images of planets from the Institute of Astronomy will create a truly unearthly experience.

Here are the planets and some of their moons, all visible with a good telescope, some visible with a good telescope, some visible with the naked eye.

Yet, the faster planets form aspects to Pluto on their own journeys round the zodiac, thus pulling longterm issues into shorter-term contexts.

The instrumental equipment of that observatory was somewhat antiquated, his largest telescope being a small refractor of 73 lines aperture, but he selected a line of work to suit the instruments at his disposal, observing nebulae and variable stars and keeping a watch on comets and new planets.

In his Recherches sur differents points importants du systeme du monde (1754-1756) he perfected the solution of the problem of the perturbations of the planets, which he had presented to the academy some years before.

In any case the orbits of comets are exposed to such tremendous perturbations from the planets that it is unsafe from the present orbit of a comet to conjecture what that orbit may have been in remote antiquity.

He proposed to apply the same principles to the calculation of the disturbances produced in the rotation of the planets by external action on their equatorial protuberances, but was anticipated by Poisson, who gave formulae for the variation of the elements of rotation strictly corresponding with those found by Lagrange for the variation of the elements of revolution.

To assist his lectures on astronomy he constructed elaborate globes of the terrestrial and celestial spheres, on which the course of the planets was marked; for facilitating arithmetical and perhaps geometrical processes he constructed an abacus with twenty-seven divisions and a thousand counters of horn.

Great masses, as those of the great planets, would not be attracted with a force proportional to the mass because of the hindrance or other effect of the interposed portions.

It was especially used to represent geometrically the periodic apparent retrograde motion of the outer planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which we now know to be due to the annual revolution of the earth around the sun, but which in the Ptolemaic astronomy were taken to be real.

The Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (Linz and Frankfort, 1618-162r), a lucid and attractive textbook of Copernican science,was remarkable for the prominence given to "physical astronomy," as well as for the extension to the Jovian system of the laws recently discovered to regulate the motions of the planets.

Lastly, in astronomy he is credited by Ptolemy with an explanation of the motion of the planets by a system of epicycles; he also made reseafches in the lunar theory, for which he is said to have been called Epsilon (e).

Fechner (1801-1887) affords a conspicuous instance of the idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his Panpsychism, or that form of noumenal idealism which holds that the universe is a vast communion of spirits, souls of men, of animals, of plants, of earth and other planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members in the soul of the world, the highest spirit - God, in whom we live and move and have our being; that the bodily and the spiritual, or the physical and the psychical, are everywhere parallel processes which never meet to interact; but that the difference between them is only a difference between the outer and inner aspects of one identical psychophysical process; and yet that both sides are not equally real, because while psychical and physical are identical, the psychical is what a thing really is as seen from within, the physical is what it appears to be to a spectator outside; or spirit is the self-appearance of matter, matter the appearance of one spirit to another.

Emphasizing the many real analogies between physical and mental agency, but underrating the much stronger evidences that all the mental operations of men and animals require a nervous system, he flew to the paradox that soul is not limited to men and animals, but extends to plants, to the earth and other planets, to the sun, to the world itself, of which, according to him, God P y is the world-soul.

Hipparchus fixed the chief data of astronomy - the lengths of the tropical and sidereal years, of the various months, and of the synodic periods of the five planets; determined the obliquity of the ecliptic and of the moon's path, the place of the sun's apogee, the eccentricity of his orbit, and the moon's horizontal parallax; all with approximate accuracy.

The " method of least squares," by which the most probable result can be educed from a body of observational data, was published by Adrien Marie Legendre in 1806, by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his Theoria Motus (1809), which described also a mode of calculating the orbit of a planet from three complete observations, afterwards turned to important account for the recapture of Ceres, the first discovered asteroid (see Planets, Minor).

The curve has important mechanical relations, in particular it is the orbit of a particle moving under the influence of a central force which varies inversely as the square of the distance of the particle; this is the gravitational law of force, and the curve consequently represents the orbits of the planets if only an individual planet and the sun be considered; the other planets, however, disturb this orbit (see Mechanics).

It has also been involved with quasar surveys and more recently the discovery of over 20 planets around other stars.

Instead of fitting the solar system around the earth, we should make the earth with the other planets revolve around the sun.

However, true progress in understanding the solar system and the planets only came when heliocentric ideas began to supplant the old geocentric system.

Rocky handled all types of emergencies, including the evacuation of doomed planets and the uncovering of villainous plots against the United Worlds.

Here are the planets and some of their moons, all visible with a good telescope, some visible with the naked eye.

Scientists are pushing intellectualboundariesby researching the possibility of life on other terrestrial planets.

The universe, or cosmos, is filled with energies from the planets, stars, and all life within it.

Journeying through the cosmos with imagery including planets, stars, and galaxies.

A cutout of your favorite planets from the local party supply store will complete the look for little money.

A solar system shower curtain, which similarly uses bright graphics and text to teach or remind anyone of details of the solar system - not just the planets, but factoids as well.

For the budding astronomer, bedding with stars and planets is a natural choice.

Now, those habitable planets could be linked to Earth and colonized in only a matter of years.

As the ships hits the planet's horizon, a mysterious glow (in effect, a halo) surrounds the planets and then engulfs the ship.

In the future, humans found their way into space and colonized a number of planets.

Humans have populated planets and we've still got a slow-shooting rifle?

Going further, Maxis Spore eventually progresses to the point where the gamer takes on an intergalactic perspective, having its creature civilization invade those on other planets.

Upon reaching the "space" phase, players will be able to visit the planets of other players, interacting with the different species.

Rather than hunt items on one planet, Samus must travel across several planets to find artifacts and hunt down her prey.

The best part is you choose when to go to these planets, leading to an enormously open-ended experience.

The goal now is to colonize neighboring planets, even if they appear to be uninhabitable.

The final phase in Spore is the space phase where you get to explore other planets and their civilizations.

Different planets are homeworlds to different players who know the landscape better than anyone.

You try to get more planets in each of your systems.

You can either explore for more planets or build many different types of battle-prepped spaceships and take planets from other players.

In the early 1600's Johannes Kepler discovered that the elliptical orbits of the planets as they circled the sun and referred to the Divine Proportion in his explanation.

Visitors who choose to dress in Star Trek uniforms will also come in character, representing the Federation of Planets and "exploring" the unusual life and times on the "planet surface" as the renaissance faire may be called.

It is based on the positions of the planets at the exact time you were born.

There are many positions of planets and the moon that go into determining your exact zodiac personality.

You'll also note that the symbols of the planets are also contained within this section of the deck.

The movement of the planets affects your love life.

Not only do they signal where you should focus your attention, but understanding the planets and applying aspects within those houses can boost the predictive astrological skills of the average horoscope junkie to an entirely new level!

A conjunction is formed when two or more planets are within close proximity.

The end result of this proximity is that the planets act as one.

Formed when two planets sit 180 degrees apart from each other, oppositions are all about awareness, objectivity and forced growth.

Squares occur when two or more planets form a 90 degree angle.

Sextiles mean that two planets form a 60 degree angle.

Planets in the first house (like the moon or Uranus) tend to "color" the entire house.

No matter where her other planets may be and no matter who she eventually falls in love with, she'll always be attracted to spiritual, artistic and altruistic souls; these are all Pisces characteristics.

You can easily delve into your own horoscopes or those of your friends and family to discover what the planets have in store.

Depending on where the planets are housed, you'll see some kind of pattern emerge.

As an aside, this is similar to when your sun houses Saturn or Jupiter; the entire chart is then seen through the "eyes" of these planets.

Therefore, if Pisces is in any of these planets, it wil color how you love and how you express yourself sexually.

In this short segment, she outlines in detail the affects of upcoming movements of the planets and stars as they pass through the astrological signs.

Sites that are teen oriented mean no reading about how the planets are impacting money market investments or career moves.

Whenever two planets are directly opposed to one another, they are in "opposition", and when heavy-hitting planets like Saturn and Uranus fight, everyone needs to take cover!

Aquarius will feel this opposition directly because Uranus is your ruler, and make no mistake about it, these two planets are opposite in every way.

All of the outer planets are what's termed "generational" planets and they represent the lessons and/or tools a certain generation came here to teach the world.

Chinese astronomers learned that by observing and charting the stars and planets they could predict changes on earth, such as the seasons and tides.

In astrology, all planets have an area of life that they control.

The system is based around the five planets of which the Babylonians were aware.

Each of these planets was aligned with one of the Babylonian gods.

Astrologers of the time began to mark certain reactions of people (such as war) to the positions of the planets at the time of the event.

At any given moment in time, the planets fall within a certain constellation.

Astrology believes that the position of these planets indicates both certain things about a person and about their life situation.

Horoscopes are formulated by first analyzing which traits a person has because of the position of the planets when that person was born, and secondly, where the planets will be in the near future.

Along the top row, you'll see a series of symbols or "glyphs" that represent each of the planets and some other important astrological bodies.

Each month, the moon passes over your natal Sun, your natal moon and all the other planets.

You need to know the exact time of your birth in order to calculate which astrological house it was in as well as its aspects to the other planets in your chart.

If you are a Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn or fellow Pisces (or have significant planets in these signs), you have a better chance at attracting this very special man, and a better chance overall to find lasting compatibility with him.

When the moon travels around the Zodiac, it interacts with the planets that are in your natal chart.

In order to use a moon calendar to your advantage, you should know the location of all the major planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto).

Take special notice when the Moon enters a sign that houses one or several of your planets.

When the moon is in Aries, it is opposite any planets that are in Libra.

For complete interpretations of the transiting moon's effect on your natal planets, see Café Astrology's detailed moon transits page.

There are other factors in your astrological chart that can contribute to compatibility such as different rising signs or the position of major planets in your chart.

For example, if most of your planets fall in either the house of philosophy (the 9th house) or the house of social status (the 11th house), even a Cancer would lean towards a life of travel and academia.

Read a general love forecast based on the upcoming position of the moon and planets, and and check out the heart/love ratings for your individual sign.

Remember, the stars and planets may influence, but mortal man is a creature of free will and thought.

After all, much of the Mayan calendar is based on the alignment of the planets.

Known as the galactic alignment, the Earth is part of a body of stars and planets known as the Milky Way.

Many people who believe that the planets can tell us all are worried about 2012.

After all, the alignment of the planets, gravitational fields and the sun presents a rather suspect situation.

He will truly appreciate your honesty, and if he happens to have several planets in Aries, he'll find it very refreshing.

Many astrologers believe that the mathematical relationship between the planets determines how those planets function in your chart.

Mathematically speaking, a conjunction is formed when two planets are approximately at the same degree within one sign.

In order for the aspect to form a conjunction, the planets must be within eight degrees of one another.

A sextile occurs when two planets are 60 degrees apart, and it points toward natural ability and inherent talents.

Trines form when planets are 120 degrees apart in an astrological chart.

Oppositions occur in a chart when the planets are 180 degrees apart.

A square occurs when planets are 90 degrees apart.

Planets and points indicating astrological compatibility vary greatly, but each carries its own unique flavor that colors a romantic pairing.

The key factor to understand about the planets is that each one conveys a certain energy to a romantic relationship.

An individual with a sun in Scorpio may not relate as heavily to this zodiac position if several other of his major planets are located in different signs.

Hence, the light presence of Scorpio in just one or two planets can be kept at bay by more yielding and whimsical signs.

Such intensity is best balanced by planets within the earth element that can provide a stabilizing calm for dominant Scorpios.

A natal chart incorporates the zodiac into several governing planets and houses.

Such a chart features an abundance of this zodiac sign within major planets.

Astrological signs span a horde of planets and houses.

Many empaths and psychics have sun signs in Cancer or have several planets in Cancer or one of the other water signs of Pisces or Scorpio.

That said, note that it is not impossible for Aries to find happiness with an earth or water sign, particularly if Aries has planets in earth and water signs or vice versa.

Finding your ideal astrological love compatibility depends on a variety of factors such as planets, houses and aspects.

Factors such as the placement of the houses within the zodiac and the aspects/angles of the planets all work together to determine a person's unique energy.

However, other important planets such as the moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus can exercise a vast influence over a person's natal chart.

The angles of these planets, if they cause negative and conflicting patterns, help explain the difficulties within a person's character.

The attraction to the water signs might be further exasperated if you have many planets located in that that house, like Venus or Mars, that are also in water signs.

The planets that astrologers turn to for romantic matters are Venus and Mars; Mars rules energy, particularly sexual energy, and Venus rules romantic likes and dislikes.

Once you have that, take a look at whether or not your Venus sign makes aspects to other planets in your chart.

If it does, you can activate the aspect by doing an activity that engages the planets involved.

If there are no Venus aspects, use the aspect your sun makes to the other planets.

However, note that if you have other planets in the same house that Venus in is, you'll need to engage those planets as well.

If one of those planets is Saturn, you may also need to push back against any fears you may have associated with that house.

Capricorn has a reputation for being something of a status climber, and while this trait may be seen more so with natives that have several planets in the sign, the truth is that Capricorn is simply a really hard worker.

A natal chart can be very complex with planets resting in many zodiac signs.

If Taurus or Scorpio rests in several of the major planets such as the sun, moon, Mars and Venus, this can make for a fairly dominant chart.