Planets and gods


About 2,300 years ago the astronomer Aristotle gave the planets
names of Greek gods. Aristotle did his best to match the characters the gods
where supposed to have with what he knew about planets- there speed, brightness,
and colour. Later greek writing about the planets was translated into the Latin
language, so the greek planet names were changed to the names of the equivalent
Roman gods. Hermes became Mercury, Aphrodite became Venus, Ares became Mars,
Zeus became Jupiter, and Cronos became Saturn.



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Wednesday 23 November 2011

JUPITER

The largest and most massive of the planets was named Zeus by the Greeks and Jupiter by the Romans. Jupiter is the biggest planet out of all of them. You could fit thousands of earths inside Jupiter. thats how big it is! Jupiter is the greek god that saved his brothers and sisters from his cannible father. Jupiter is named the greatest god of all. Clouds and rain cover this planet and is common for shooting bolts of thunder onto the face of Jupiter. A huge storm on Jupiter has been raging for hundrerds of years that could fit Earth in it several times. It is called the giant red spot. You are able to see it from Earth.
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