solar system
Publié le 22/02/2012
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The Sun, known also as Sol, named
after a Roman god, and the astronomical bodies that
orbit it. In modern times, the English names for six
of the planets are Roman gods and the names for
two of the planets are Greek gods. (Earth is an Old
English word that refers to the planet we live on.)
These gods are
Mercury—The Roman god of trade and
merchants
Venus—The Roman goddess of the productive
power of nature Mars—A Roman god of fertility and war
Jupiter—The supreme Roman god
Saturn—A very old Roman god of agriculture,
father of Jupiter
Uranus—A very ancient Greek deity, husband
of Gaia
Neptune—An ancient Roman sea god
Pluto (no longer considered a planet)—A ritual
title for Hades, Greek god of the Underworld
and Roman god Dis
Many of the moons of these planets were discovered
since about a.d. 1500. They, too, were given
mythological names, most of them from the Greek
stories. Some of Jupiter's 16 moons are Ganymede,
Europa, Io, and Callisto. Some of Saturn's 20
moons are Tethys, Prometheus, Pandora, and
Atlas. Neptune's moons, too, have been named
after beings from Greek mythology. Triton is the
largest, discovered soon after the planet in 1846.
Most of the moons were discovered in 1989, but also
received Greek names, including Proteus, Galatea
and Thalassa.
The first known asteroid, Ceres, named after a
Roman goddess, was discovered in 1801. Since then,
many asteroids have received mythological names.
Juno, Vesta, and Icarus, as well as Eros, the first
asteroid to be orbited by a humanmade probe, are
also named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses.
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