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

URANUS

Uranus was named for the Greek god of the sky. The astronmer William Lassell, who found two of Uranus' s moons in 1851, started to name all of the planet's moons after the characters from William Shakepseare's work. Uranus is described as a calm but dull planet with almost no clouds. Uranus's name is the eldest god of gods he is the husband of mother earth, father of saturn, and jupiter is his grandson. I think the history of the name Uranus is one of the most interesting planets in our solar system because of how old it is.
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