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

PLUTO

Pluto was named after Roman god of the underworld, who was able to make himself invisible. Pluto is a dwarf planet, because its so small and made of ice. Some people say pluto isnt really a planet, because it is a dwarf planet. Pretty much all of the time on pluto, it is dark, because the sun beams are hard to recieve on this planet. Even through a telescope, Pluto is very hard to see. Pluto is one fifth smaller than Earth. Pluto, and its moon, Charon, are very close The name pluto from the roman god, would collect the souls of the dead, and Charon was the boatman who took the bodies to Pluto.

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