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.



planets

planets

Earth

Earth

Wednesday 23 November 2011

MERCURY

Mercury was named  after the Roman god of travel because it appears to move so swiftly.It moves so very fast. Every now and then you are able to see this planet on Earth because it is able to dodge the glare and reveal where it is. There is pretty much no wind or atmosphere on this planet which makes it even more faster. During the day, it gets extremely hot, but during the night, it becomes absolutely freezing. I think that it is good that they named the planet Mercury, because it was named after a messanger who gave messages to the gods.
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