Planet

(noun.) (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction.

(noun.) any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star.

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• She was a study of such nature as had not encountered my eyes yet: a great and new planet she was: but in what shape? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Sir John Herschel, in an address before the British Association on September 10, said that the year past had given prospect of a new planet. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In September of the same year Eugèn e Bouvard had presented new tables of that planet. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It is evident that the quest of the new planet had become general. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• During those two centuries the Japanese remained as completely cut off from the rest of the world as though they lived upon another planet. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Had we continued the five thousand miles that lie between Thuria and the planet he would have been but the frozen memory of a man. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Adams started with the assumptions, not im probable, that the orbit of the unknown planet was a circle, and that its distance from the sun was tw ice that of Uranus. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• What, then, would be the orbit of a planet under a central attraction varying as the inverse square of the distance? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Did the vitalizing air reach the people of that distant planet in time to save them? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• After that event Bode suggested that it was possible other astronomers had observed Uranus before, without recognizing it as a planet. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Together we may do still more to regenerate our dying planet. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• This was an inverse problem; the perturbation being given, it was required to find the position, mass, and orbit of the disturbing planet. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• From the cooling and cont racting masses that were to constitute the planets smaller zones and rings were formed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• They were familiar; many of them commonplaces--sun, moon, planets, weight, distance, mass, square of numbers. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What happy combination of the planets presided over her birth, I wonder? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• About it at great distances circle not only our earth, but certain kindred bodies called the planets. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Our earth is one of these planets. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The relative thickness of the rims is perhaps designed to express the relative distances of the planets. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The curates, herding together after their manner, made a constellation of three lesser planets. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• That is only one example out of thousands that to me prove beyond the possibility of a doubt that some vast Intelligence is governing this and other planets. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• At Cairo about the close of the tenth century the first accurate records of eclipses were made, and tables were constructed of the motions of the sun, moon, and planets. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was thus that the hypothesis that the planets move in circular orbits, recommended by its simplicity and ?sthetic quality, was forced to give way to the hyp othesis of elliptical orbits. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Dr. John himself was one of those on whose birth benign planets have certainly smiled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is slowly distorted by the attractions of the other planets, for ages it may be nearly circular, for ages it is more or less elliptical. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Neptune's orbit is more nearly circular than that of any of the major planets except Venus. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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