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* 1966 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboard player, composer, and producer ( Planet X, Dream Theater, and Black Country Communion )
* 1960 – Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, composer, and producer ( Planet X, CAB, Ring of Fire, and Seven the Hardway )
While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.
Tombaugh discovered nearly 800 asteroids during his search for Pluto and years of follow-up searches looking for another candidate for the postulated Planet X. Tombaugh is also credited with the discovery of comet C / 1931 AN, though its orbit is currently unknown.
Some realistic references to ARPA in fiction are in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X ( DARPA consults on a technical threat ), in episodes of television program The West Wing ( the ARPA-DARPA distinction ), the television program Numb3rs ( DARPA research into creating the first self-aware computer ), and in the motion picture Executive Decision ( use of a one-of-a-kind experimental prototype in an emergency ).
** Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2: Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X!
In Batman: The Brave and the Bold TV series, a character named Rohtul ( Luthor spelled backwards ) appears in the episode " The Super-Batman of Planet X " portrayed by Clancy Brown.
Percival Lowell, originator of the Planet X hypothesis
The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.
Today, the astronomical community widely agrees that Planet X, as originally envisioned, does not exist, but the concept of Planet X has been revived by a number of astronomers to explain other anomalies observed in the outer Solar System.
In popular culture, and even among some astronomers, Planet X has become a stand-in term for any undiscovered planet in the outer Solar System, regardless of its relationship to Lowell's hypothesis.
In 1906, convinced he could resolve the conundrum of Uranus's orbit, he began an extensive project to search for a trans-Neptunian planet, which he named Planet X.
The X in the name represents an unknown and is pronounced as the letter, as opposed to the Roman numeral for 10 ( At the time, Planet X would have been the ninth planet ).
Lowell's hope in tracking down Planet X was to establish his scientific credibility, which had eluded him thanks to his widely derided belief that channel-like features visible on the surface of Mars were canals constructed by an intelligent civilisation.
In 1915, he published his Memoir of a Trans-Neptunian Planet, in which he concluded that Planet X had a mass roughly seven times that of the Earth about half that of Neptune and a mean distance from the Sun of 43 AU.
He assumed Planet X would be a large, low-density object with a high albedo, like the gas giants.
Lowell's sudden death in 1916 temporarily halted the search for Planet X.

Planet and
*" The Planet of the Dead " Weird Tales, March 1932 LW2
* " The Lonely Planet " PNG-based animation for web browsers
In the first three novels Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions there is or was a League of all Worlds ; in City of Illusions, it seems to have been conquered or fragmented by an alien race, called the Shing, from beyond the League.
Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars ( as in the film Red Planet ), became rare in fiction after the visit of the space probe Mariner 4 to Mars, except in exercises of deliberate nostalgia most frequently in genres such as comics and animation rather than word-based works.
* In his popular book, The Late Great Planet Earth, first published in 1970, evangelical Christian author Hal Lindsey argued that prophetical information in Matthew 24 indicates that the “ generation ” witnessing the “ rebirth of Israel ” is the same generation that will observe the fulfillment of the “ signs ” referred to in and that would be consummated by the second coming of Christ in approximately 1988.
Peter Bogdanovich was a 31-year-old stage actor, film essayist and critic with two small films Targets ( 1968 ) ( also known as Before I Die ) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women ( 1968 ) to his directorial credit.
* Altair IV From the movie Forbidden Planet, formerly inhabited by the mysteriously extinct race of Krell.
* Big Planet An enormous but not very dense planet, settled by Earth colonists and divided into a large number of colorful social groupings, in the novels Big Planet and Showboat World by Jack Vance.
* Chiron A planet ( usually called " Planet ") orbiting the star Alpha Centauri in the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
* Darwin IV Planet in the art of Wayne Douglas Barlowe.
* Fhloston Planet in the movie The Fifth Element.
* Hesikos A high eccentricity asteroid in Angus McVicar's The Lost Planet series.
* Ireta A planet in Anne McCaffrey's Planet Pirates series, inhabited by both people and dinosaurs, and so also called Dinosaur Planetthe name of the novel in which it first appears.
* Krankor The home planet of the supervillain Phantom in the Japanese television series Planet Prince.
* Lumen The Planet of Light in the British puppet TV series Space Patrol.
* LV-1201 Planet in the Aliens vs.
* Midkemia Planet on which the events of the Riftwar books of Raymond E. Feist take place.

Planet and planet
The 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet is set on Altair 4, a presumed planet of the star.
* Understanding Our Microbial Planet: The New Science of Metagenomics A 20-page educational booklet providing a basic overview of metagenomics and our microbial planet.
Planet s and dwarf planet s of the Solar System ( Sizes to scale, distances not to scale )
His hypothetical planet, which he termed " Planet O " ( because it came after " N ", i. e. Neptune ), possessed a mean orbital radius of 51. 9 AU and an orbital period of 373. 5 years.
Lowell himself, despite his close association with Pickering, dismissed Planet O out of hand, saying, " This planet is very properly designated " O ", it is nothing at all.
Lowell's greatest contribution to planetary studies came during the last decade of his life, which he devoted to the search for Planet X, a hypothetical planet beyond Neptune.
* Biocompatible Planet ( BP ): A planet possessing the necessary physical parameters for life to flourish on its surface.
* Easily Terraformable Planet ( ETP ): A planet that might be rendered biocompatible, or possibly habitable, and maintained so by modest planetary engineering techniques and with the limited resources of a starship or robot precursor mission.
She also chose Tau Ceti for a final shortlist of just five stars suitable for searches by the ( indefinitely postponed ) Terrestrial Planet Finder telescope system, commenting that " these are places I'd want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.
* In the " Fear of a Bot Planet " episode of the animated science fiction TV series Futurama, the Planet Express crew is ordered to make a delivery on a planet called " Chapek 9 " which is inhabited solely by robots.
Red Planet is a nickname for the planet Mars, due to its surface color.
* In the Hainish Cycle, while interaction with cultures is rather free, the Planet of Exile mentions the Law of Cultural Embargo, which states: No Religion or Congruence shall be disseminated, no technique or theory shall be taught, no cultural set or pattern shall be exported, nor shall para-verbal speech be used with any non-Communicant high-intelligence lifeform, or any Colonial Planet, until it be judged by the Area Council with the consent or the Plenum that such a planet be ready for Control or for Membership
* C. S. Lewis wrote, in Out of the Silent Planet, about three humans visiting Mars and meeting three different kinds of native intelligent creatures ( sorns, ( or séroni ), hrossa, and pfifltriggi ) there, as well as hunting hnakra and meeting the Oyarsa, or eldil in charge of this planet, called Malacandra in the Old Solar language.
* Gong album 2032 ( released September 2009 ) describes the year 2032 to be the year that the Planet Gong makes full contact with the planet Earth
Forbidden Planet was the first science fiction film that was set entirely on another planet in deep space, away from the planet Earth.
* 1998-- Mars-Failure-Nozomi ( Planet B ) orbiter, the first Japanese spacecraft to reach another planet

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