The planets are named after the famous gods of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Mercury (Greek god name Hermes) was the messenger god. That the innermost planet was named after a god that had to be swift on foot is no accident, because from the vantage point of Earth, Mercury, wit...
The largest and most massive of the planets was named Zeus by the Greeks and Jupiter by the Romans; he was the most important deity in both pantheons. Jupiter's satellites are named after mythological characters who have some relationship to Zeus. SATELLITES:Metis(first wife of Zeus);Adrastea(...
All of the other planets were named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. But in India, Name of Earth is also based on Goddesses.(In many Indian Languages…) Iris Harris February 17, 2014 10:52 am Did it ever crossed anybody’s mind that the word Earth sounds a lot like its ...
and they adopted the Babylonian system of marking time. They continued to recognize the prominence of the sun and the moon, calling two days of the weekhemera helio(day of the Sun) andhemera selenes(day of the Moon). Instead of naming the other five days after planets though, they named...
Jupiter was appropriately named by the Romans, who chose to name it after the king of the gods. In addition to being the largest planet in our Solar System – with two and a half times the mass of all the other planets combined – it also has the most moons of any Solar planet. So...
Think about the eight planets and any memorably named dwarf planets or moons, too. 46. Different brands of cars Tesla, Toyota, Ford—there’s a plethora of car manufacturers to name. 47. Common phobias From arachnophobia to claustrophobia, there are many fears people experience. ...
There are plans for a space vehicle to grab a small mineral rich Asteroid and steer into an orbit round the Moon, where it will be mined for rare precious metals. Many of them essential to meet the growing demand by the electronics Industry. Extracting the same metals here on Earth cause...
Start by counting how many yellow corners are already solved on the top face of the Rubik’s Cube. If it’s zero or two, you need to rotate the top face (U) until one of the missing yellow corner pieces (on the wrong face rather than the top one) is in the top-right corner of...
It was originally built in 1410 and has withstood many difficult and turbulent times. Shutterstock This medieval instrument was used to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the sun, moon, zodiacal constellations, and major planets. It can be found ...
Lovecraft's universe contains many creatures that are equally incomprehensible. Some of these are known as the Great Old Ones, or the Old Ones, and are powerful, ageless beings from beyond the stars. Though Lovecraft used the phrase "the Great Old Ones" in contradictory ways, most of his ...