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

NEPTUNE

Neptune, a blue planet, was named for the Roman god of the sea. Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun, so it is pretty cold and covered in water. Neptune is the brother of Jupiter god of all gods. Uranus is the closest planet to Neptune. Neptune is described as a wild and angry because of its storms.
 I think Neptune is cool because apparently it rains diamonds on this planet.

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