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.

The locations where these adventures occur, such as a city, country, planet or an entire fictional universe, are also sometimes called ' campaigns ' but are more correctly referred to as ' worlds ' or ' campaign settings '.

Examples of well-known stars which are usually referred to by their Flamsteed numbers include 51 Pegasi ( see Extrasolar planet ), and 61 Cygni ( see Parallax ).

The planet received its name because of its remarkable similarity to Earth ; its day is nearly 24 hours long and its surface gravity is a comfortable 1. 08 g. Oceans, mean global temperature, seasons, and moon ( Home's moon is called Metaluna, but is often referred to as " the Moon " by Homers ) are also similar.

The NASA model, referred to as the Design Reference Mission, on version 5. 0 as of September 1, 2012, calls for a significant upgrade in hardware ( at least 3 launches per mission, rather than two ), and sends the ERV to Mars fully fueled, parking it in orbit above the planet for subsequent rendezvous with the MAV.

Set entirely on a colonized Mars where a plague has made the planet uninhabitable by men, so that only women populate Mars, living alongside an ancient parasitic organism ( perhaps also alien to Mars ) referred to as " the Fenrir " and " the Wolf.

During the following centuries, referred to as the " Time of Isolation ", the planet develops a feudal form of government, in which the Emperor is supported by sixty regional counts and other minor aristocrats, identified by the honorific Vor-in their names.

Such views have also led many pagans to revere the planet Earth as Mother Earth, who is often referred to as Gaia after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth.

Although both planets orbit their central star ( as depicted in Star Trek Nemesis ), Romulus and Remus are often referred to as a double planet.

The term escape velocity is actually a misnomer, and it is often more accurately referred to as escape speed since the necessary speed is a scalar quantity which is independent of direction ( assuming a non-rotating planet and ignoring atmospheric friction ).

** an adherent of Gaianism — an Earth-centered ( sometimes referred to as neo-Pagan ) spiritual inclination with diverse and evolving religious expression whose central reference is Gaia as personification of the Earth as Mother to all life upon the planet.

The concentrated area of large gold mines surrounding the original Hannan find is often referred to as the Golden Mile, and is considered by some to be the richest square mile of earth on the planet.

The planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and was first referred to in Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ); the planet was given its first full-fledged appearance in Superman # 1 ( Summer 1939 ).

However, not all rogue planets are classified as Class R ; for instance, in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode " The Search ", the Founders homeworld in the Omarion Nebula is referred to as a " rogue " Class M planet.

The weapons of eight bioships ( referred to in Star Trek: Armada II as " Species 8472 battleships ") can be linked with that of a larger ninth bioship of modified design ( referred to in Armada II as a " Species 8472 bio-frigate "); the collective weapon thus formed can destroy an entire planet in seconds.

In effect, each orbits the other, forming a binary system informally referred to as a double dwarf planet.

Sometimes this unit is referred to as a Sol, not to be confused with a sol, meaning one solar day on a different planet, such as Mars.

Upon crashing on the planet Gunsmoke, any advanced technology from the days of Earth is referred to as lost technology.

Instead, it provokes psychotic violence ( on the part of people like Becka Paulson, who kills her adulterous husband by fatally rewiring their TV, killing herself in the process ) and the disappearance of a young boy, David Brown, whose older brother Hilly teleports him to another planet, referred to as Altair 4 by the Havenites.

It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as " The Death " – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.

Samus initially lands at a location on the planet referred to as " the Tallon Overworld " ingame, a rainforest-like area.

The living factors of the planet can be referred to collectively as the biosphere.

HD 209458 b is an extrasolar planet ( unofficially referred to as Osiris ) that orbits the Solar analog star HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 150 light-years from Earth's solar system, with evidence of water vapor.