However, their work rejects terraforming and Mars has been designated as a " planet for science ", analogously to Antarctica's current status as an ecologically preserved site for managed scientific experimentation.

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.

It is also designated Saturn V ( being the fifth major moon going outward from the planet ).

Oberon, also designated, is the outermost major moon of the planet Uranus.

In 1851 Lassell eventually numbered all four known satellites in order of their distance from the planet by Roman numerals, and since then Oberon has been designated.

The planet Tau Cygna V visited by the USS Enterprise-D in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Ensigns of Command " was designated as a Class H world.

In the original Star Trek series episode " I, Mudd ", the planet Mudd was designated in dialogue as Class K.

In 2007, as it approached Earth for a fly-by, the spacecraft was briefly designated a minor planet 2007 VN < sub > 84 </ sub > due to it being misidentified as an asteroid ( see below ).

The object was, however, ultimately named Eris and designated a dwarf planet.

Pluto was designated by P prior to its recategorization as a dwarf planet.

Similarly, the fourth satellite of Pluto, discovered after Pluto was categorized as a dwarf planet and assigned a minor planet number, is designated S / 2011 ( 134340 ) 1 rather than S / 2011 P 1, though the New Horizons team, who disagree with the dwarf planet classification, use the latter.

The 8th minor planet discovered in the second half of March 1950, for example, would be provisionally designated 1950 FH.

A similar proposal was, however, finally accepted in 2006 when Pluto was designated minor planet 134340 and also declared a dwarf planet.

On the alternate-future Earth designated Earth-691 by Marvel Comics, the Martians from H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds return in 2001 for another attempt at conquering the planet.

SALUSA SECUNDUS: third planet of Gamma Waiping ; designated Imperial Prison Planet after removal of the Royal Court to Kaitain.

The planets of PSR B1257 + 12 are designated from A to D ( ordered by increasing distance ), unlike planets around normal stars which follow the standard where the first discovered planet in the system is b, followed by c and so on.

In 1996 a planet, designated as Tau Boötis b, was discovered orbiting the primary star.

The planet, designated Mu Arae b, was thought to be in a highly eccentric orbit of around 743 days.

Later in 2004, a small inner planet designated Mu Arae c was announced with a mass comparable to that of Uranus in a 9-day orbit.

In the order of increasing distance from the planet the 13 known rings are designated 1986U2R / ζ, 6, 5, 4, α, β, η, γ, δ, λ, ε, ν and μ.

The planet was designated Gliese 876 b and was detected by making measurements of the star's radial velocity as the planet's gravity pulled it around.

The innermost planet of the Upsilon Andromedae system was discovered in 1996 and announced in January 1997, together with the planet of Tau Boötis and the innermost planet of 55 Cancri.

However, a fourth planet ( Upsilon Andromedae e ) was discovered in 2010.

This planet is in a 3: 1 resonance with Upsilon Andromedae d.

There are five ' void ' sectors ( Epsilon, Iota, Pi, Upsilon and Omega ), where star and planet density is low, and which tend to generate large ion storms and radiation clouds, restricting travel from one set of sectors to another.

The first planet discovered in a system is given the designation " b " and later planets are given subsequent letters.

For instance, in the 55 Cancri system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996 ; two additional farther planets were simultaneously discovered in 2002 with the nearest to the star being named 55 Cancri c and the other 55 Cancri d ; a fourth planet was claimed ( its existence was later disputed ) in 2004 and named 55 Cancri e despite lying closer to the star than 55 Cancri b ; and the most recently discovered planet, in 2007, was named 55 Cancri f despite lying between 55 Cancri c and 55 Cancri d. As of April 2012 the highest letter in use is " j ", for the unconfirmed planet HD 10180 j ( HD 10180 h is the confirmed planet with the highest letter ).

However, the " A " is sometimes omitted ; for example the first planet discovered around the primary star of the Tau Boötis binary system is usually called simply Tau Boötis b.

The discoverers of the circumbinary planet around Kepler-16 followed Hessman et al. s proposed naming scheme when naming the body Kepler-16 ( AB )- b, or simply Kepler-16b when there is no ambiguity.

Its companion Fomalhaut b was thought to be the first extrasolar planet ever detected by a visible light image, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, but infrared observations have since retracted this claim: it is instead a spherical cloud of dust.

If a planet is sufficiently massive, the water on it may be solid even at high temperatures, because of the high pressure caused by gravity, as it was observed on exoplanets Gliese 436 b and GJ 1214 b.

The strongest planetary winds discovered so far are on the extrasolar planet HD 189733 b, which is thought to have easterly winds moving at more than.

* October 6 – Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star.

* 53 Em — 5, 600 light years — Distance to the globular cluster M4 and the extrasolar planet PSR B1620-26 b within it

* Tau Boötis is known to be locked to the close-orbiting giant planet Tau Boötis b.

* 102 Mm — Diameter of HD 149026 b, an unusually dense Jovian planet

In 2009, student astronomers at the observatory tracked the extrasolar planet HD 80606 b and for the first time accurately calculated its size.

Fomalhaut holds a special significance in extrasolar planet research, as it is the center of the first stellar system with an extrasolar planet ( Fomalhaut b ) imaged at visible wavelengths.

The mass of the planet, Fomalhaut b, is estimated to be no more than three times the mass of Jupiter but at least the mass of Neptune.

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

She was the sun, he the closest planet orbiting around her, the rest of the world existing and visible yet removed.

Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.

`` That it had found a planet on which human beings could live and which was already inhabited by sentient beings ''!!

Was B'dikkat a crazy slave to his own duty or was he a man who had hopes of going back to his own planet some day, surrounded by a family of little cow-people resembling himself??

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

* In the Star Wars prequels, the galactic capital planet Coruscant has buildings many miles tall, and approaches the completely built-over condition of Trantor in Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy ( Note: due to this, Coruscant was originally to be named Jhantor but was eventually renamed Coruscant ).

The planet Neptune was discovered in Capricornus by German astronomer Johann Galle, near Deneb Algedi ( δ Capricorni ) on September 23, 1846, which is appropriate as Capricornus can be seen best from Europe at 4: 00am in September.

Early in the Cenozoic, following the K-Pg event, the planet was dominated by relatively small fauna, including small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

The Blue Planetary was discovered by John Herschel and named for its color's similarity to Uranus, though the nebula is three times larger than the planet.

he added: Closely examined, painstakingly studied, she is easily the most interesting person on the planet, and in several ways as easily the most extraordinary woman that was ever born upon it.

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.

This ruled out classification as an asteroid, and they decided this was the ninth planet that Lowell had predicted.

The name " Pluto " was reportedly suggested by Venetia Burney, then an 11-year-old English school girl, who died in April 2009, having lived to see the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

It was the first comet observed to be orbiting a planet, and had probably been captured by the planet around 20 – 30 years earlier.

Brian Marsden of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams noted that the comet lay only about 4 degrees from Jupiter as seen from Earth, and that while this could of course be a line of sight effect, its apparent motion in the sky suggested that it was physically close to the giant planet.

Its orbit around Jupiter was very loosely bound, with a period of about 2 years and an apojove ( the point in the orbit farthest from the planet ) of.

Its orbit around the planet was highly eccentric ( e = 0. 9986 ).

While the impacts took place on the side of Jupiter hidden from Earth, Galileo, then at a distance of 1. 6 AU from the planet, was able to see the impacts as they occurred.

A few minutes after the impact fireball was detected, Galileo measured renewed heating, probably due to ejected material falling back onto the planet.

* Cybergirl Cybergirl is a cyber replicant prototype 6000, a " cyborg " from a distant planet who ran away to explore the beings she was created after, human beings.

* In the Stargate Atlantis fifth season episode " Remnants ", a device is found whose purpose was to seed a planet with silicon-based life.

It is later revealed that Tiberium was introduced to Earth by the Scrin, an extremely advanced race of Tiberium-based aliens bent on mining the planet after the Tiberium deposits have reached maturity.