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Definition: Planetary |
PlanetaryAdjective1. Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets; "planetary motion"; "planetary year". 2. Of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball". 3. Having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond". 4. Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "planetary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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A planet (from the Greek "planetes" or "wanderers") is a body of considerable mass that orbits a star and that doesn't produce energy through nuclear fusion. Prior to the 1990s only nine were known (all of them in our own Solar system). As of the end of 2002 over 100 are known, with all of the new discoveries being extrasolar planets.
Astronomers often call asteroids minor planets, and call the larger planetary bodies (those which are commonly called planets) major planets. Planets within the solar system can be divided into categories according to composition. Those that are similar to Earth - with bodies largely composed of rock - are called terrestrial or rocky planets. Those with a composition largely made up of gaseous material, as with Jupiter, are called Jovian or gas giant planets. Sometimes a third category is added to include bodies like Pluto, whose composition is primarily ice; this category of icy bodies also includes many non-planetary bodies such as the icy moonss of the outer planets of our solar system (e.g. Titan).
The planets of our solar system (in increasing distance from the Sun) are
All of the planets in the solar system (except Earth) are named after Roman godss. Moons are also named after gods and characters from classical mythology or from the plays of Shakespeare. Asteroids can be named, at the discretion of their discoverers, after anybody or anything (subject to approval by the International Astronomical Union's panel on nomenclature). The act of naming planets and their features is known as planetary nomenclature.
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth -- with its Moon, sometimes considered a "double planet."
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Pluto -- with its moon Charon sometimes considered a double planet, and also sometimes not considered a planet at all, but simply the largest of the Trans-Neptunian objects in the Kuiper belt.
Several hypothetical planets, like Planet X (supposedly beyond the orbit of Pluto) or Vulcan (thought to orbit inside the orbit of Mercury), were proposed, and were subjects of intense searches that found nothing.
Almost all extrasolar planets (those outside our solar system) discovered to date have masses which are about the same or larger than the gas giants within the solar system. (The only exception is three planets discovered orbiting a burned-out star, or supernova remnant, called a pulsar. These are comparable in size to the terrestrial planets). This is largely because the gravitational effect of massive planets is larger, making them easier to detect. However, it is far from clear if the newly discovered planets would resemble gas giants in our solar system or if they are of an entirely different type or types which are unknown in our solar system. In particular, some of the newly discovered planets orbit extremely closely to their parent star sometimes in highly elliptical orbits. They therefore receive much more stellar radiation than the gas giants in our solar system, which makes it questionable whether they are the same type of planet at all.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States has a program underway to develop a Terrestrial Planet Finder satellite, which would be capable of detecting the planets with masses comparable to terrestrial planets. The frequency of occurrence of these planets is one of the variables in the Drake equation which estimates the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Planets are thought to form from the collapsing nebula that a planet's star formed out of, aggregating from gas and dust that orbits the protostar in a dense protostellar disk before the star's core ignites and its solar wind blows the remaining material away.
The exploration of other worlds has been one of the enduring themes of science fiction, see Planets in Science Fiction
See also: retrograde
External Links
- Planetary Motions
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Planet."
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Planetary is an American comic book series created by Warren Ellis (writer) and John Cassaday (artist), published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics. Planetary also refers to the group portrayed in the series.Planetary was previewed in the September 1998 issue of Gen13 (#33), and issue #1 was cover-dated April 1998. It is intended to be a 24-issue series, and the latest issue is #18 (December 2003).
The Premise
Planetary are an organization billing themselves as "Archaeologists of the Impossible", tracking down the world's secret history. Funded by the mysterious Fourth Man, the field team consists of three superhumans: Jakita Wagner, who is strong, fast and tough to hurt; The Drummer, who can talk to computers; and the new recruit Elijah Snow.
The series occurs in the Wildstorm Universe, along with other titles such as Stormwatch, The Authority and Gen13. For instance, Snow was born on January 1, 1900, as was Jenny Sparks of The Authority, and the two know each other. Despite this, Planetary intersects only a little with other Wildstorm series.
Planetary's field team travels the world investigating strange phenomena: Monsters and other beings, unusual relics, other superhumans, and powerful secrets which certain individuals are trying to keep hidden from the rest of the world. Their purpose in doing this is partly curiosity, and partly to use what they learn for the betterment of mankind. There are, however, groups who oppose their goals, and the organization has a substantial history which is gradually revealed during the series.
The Series
One of the series' main hooks is that it portrays alternate versions of many well-known (and obscure) figures from popular culture. At various times we are shown versions (sometimes multiple versions) of Superman, Wonder Woman, the Justice League, Doc Savage, Godzilla, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four, Tarzan, and Sherlock Holmes. This provides a rich backdrop for the ongoing story.
(In general, the public domain characters such as Holmes appear as themselves, while those still under copyright appear in altered but recognizably similar form. In some regards the series is thus similar to the series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.)
The comic relies heavily on Cassaday's detailed and imaginative artwork, and it features a variety of styles of cover, with no consistent logo or layout. The mysteries which Ellis sets up are what ultimately drive the book, as he gradually shows us the characters' relationships, their histories, and who the Fourth Man is.
Publications
- Gen13 #33 (preview)
- Planetary #1-17
- All Over the World and Other Stories (collects preview & #1-6; hardcover and softcover)
- The Fourth Man (collects #7-12; hardcover)
- Planetary/The Authority: Ruling the World: Standalone story featuring two Wildstorm groups in a plot tangentially related to an element in the first issue of Planetary.
- Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth: Standalone story featuring alternate renditions of Batman in what is otherwise a straightforward Planetary tale.
- Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta: Standalone story featuring alternate versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman facing an alternate incarnation of Planetary. Completely detached from the main Planetary storyline.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Planetary."
Synonyms: PlanetarySynonyms: erratic (adj), global (adj), planetal (adj), terrestrial (adj), wandering (adj), world(a) (adj), worldwide (adj). (additional references) |
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World | Sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite. |
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 | The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial "eye," known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. ... Credit: NASA. |  | The NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has imaged N66, a planetary nebula in the Large ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Montage of images of the asteroid Vesta taken by the Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA. |  | Nebula surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star WR124 in the constellation Sagittarius. (Produced with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2, Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA. |
 | MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away. Credit: NASA. |  | Image of the youngest known planetary nebula, the Stingray nebula (Hen-1357). Credit: NASA. |
 | Ultraviolet image of Jupiter's aurora taken by HST's Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA. |  | Global images taken by the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2on the Hubble Space Telescope. The top image is the Valles Marineris region(centered on roughly 60 degrees longitude), the middle image is the Tharsis region(centered on roughly 160 degrees longitude), and the bottom image is theSyrtis Major region (centered on roughly 270 degrees longitude).These three images are individual frames from one press release photograph. Credit: NASA. |
 | Lunar mosaic taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA. |  | Close-up of the crater Copernicus taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA. |
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| "Planetary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Planetary" is used about 269 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 269 | 17,948 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "planetary": Kepler's law of planetary motion ♦ planetary aberration ♦ planetary camera ♦ planetary cooler ♦ planetary days ♦ planetary electrons ♦ planetary gear ♦ planetary gearing ♦ planetary gears ♦ planetary house ♦ planetary microfilmer ♦ planetary mixer ♦ planetary nebula ♦ planetary precession ♦ planetary wave ♦ planetary wheel ♦ The Planetary Society. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "planetary": all-planetary, inter-planetary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "planetary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | planetar (planetarium), tokësor (above ground, earthbound, earthly, earthy, geo-, ground, land, praedial, predial, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, terrain, terrene, terrestrial, territorial, worldly), bredhës. (various references) | |
Arabic | كوكبي (astral, stellate), سياري. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | странствуващ (ambulatory, errant, itinerant, peripatetic, runabout, strolling, traveling, travelling, vagrant, wandering), световен (cosmic, global, universal, world, worldwide), огромен (enormous, formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, huge, mammoth, mighty, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, portentous, prodigious, slashing, super, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unwieldy, vast, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), земен (earthbound, earthly, earthy, ground, land, material, mundane, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, terrain, terraneous, terrene, worldly), блуждаещ (errant, erratic, excursive, faraway, vacant, vagrant), планетен (planet), планетарен (sun and planet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 星球. (various references) | |
Czech | planetární, obìžnicový. (various references) | |
Danish | planet-stjernetaage (planetary nebula), planetrører (planetary mixer), planetkøler (planetary cooler, Unax cooler), planethjul (differential side gear, planet gear, planet wheel, planetary gear, side gear), planetgear (planet gear, planetary gear, planetary pinion), planetaer boelge (long wave, major wave, planetary wave, Rossby wave), planet røreværk (planetary mixer), Unax køler (planetary cooler, Unax cooler), taet passage af en planet (planetary flyby), skridt-kamera (flat-bed camera, planetary camera, step-and-repeat camera, stepwise-operated camera), Rossby-boelge (long wave, major wave, planetary wave, Rossby wave), lang boelge (long wave, major wave, planetary wave, Rossby wave), konfiguration (configuration, conformation, connection, planetary configuration), epicyklisk gear (epicyclic gear, epicyclic gearing, epicyclic train, planetary gear, planetary gearing, planetary gears), elektron i den yderste skal (outer-shell electron, planetary electrons). (various references) | |
Dutch | planetair. (various references) | |
Esperanto | planeda. (various references) | |
Farsi | نجومی , وابسته به سیاره , ستاره ای (Asteroid, Astral, Starry), جهانی (Ecumenical, Epidemic, Global, Universal). (various references) | |
Finnish | planetaarinen sumu (planetary nebula), planeettavaihteisto (planet gear, planetary gear), planeettavaihde (planet gear, planetary gear), planeettasekoitin (planetary mixer), planeettapyörästö (epicyclic gear, epicyclic gearing, epicyclic train, planetary gear, planetary gearing, planetary gears), planeetan ohitusrata (planetary flyby), pitkä aalto (long wave, major wave, planetary wave, Rossby wave), ulompi elektroni (outer-shell electron, planetary electrons), tasokuvauksessa käytettävä kamera (flat-bed camera, planetary camera, step-and-repeat camera, stepwise-operated camera), Rossby-aalto (long wave, major wave, planetary wave, Rossby wave), kiertosekoitin (planetary mixer). (various references) | |
French | planétaire. (various references) | |
German | planeten-, planetarisch, zu anderen planeten, sich kreisförmig bewegen, irdisch (earthen, earthly, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrially), global (across the board, general, global, globally, world wide). (various references) | |
Greek | πλανητικόσ, πλανητικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פל טרי, כוכבי (astral, starlike, stellar). (various references) | |
Hungarian | földi (countryman, countrymen, earthen, earthly, earthy, fellow countryman, ground, mundane, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrestrial, wordly, worldly). (various references) | |
Indonesian | antariksa (interplanetary, planetary atmosphere, space). (various references) | |
Italian | planetario (orrery, planetarium, worldwide). (various references) | |
Korean | 행성 (Planet, planets). (various references) | |
Manx | planaidagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anetaryplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | planetário (orrery, planetarium). (various references) | |
Romanian | planetar. (various references) | |
Russian | планетный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | planetarni. (various references) | |
Spanish | planetario (orrery, planetarium). (various references) | |
Swedish | planetarisk, vandrande (migratory, walking, wandering), jordisk (earthborn, earthly, mortal, terrestrial, worldly). (various references) | |
Turkish | yıldız (astral, sidereal, star), gezegensel, gezegenlere ait, gezegen (globe, planet), dünya (earth, globe, Monde, nature, terrene, terrestrial globe, vale of tears, world). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | земний (earthborn, earthbound, earthen, earthly, mundane, natural, subcelestial, sublunar, sublunary, terrain, terrestrial, worldly), блукаючий (errant, erring, erroneous, rangy, wandering), планетний, планетарний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trần tục đ"ng bóng, lúc thế n y, lúc thế khác. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "planetary": interplanetary, protoplanetary. (additional references) | |
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"Planetary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: papeterie, planeta, planteria, plantery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "planetary" (pronounced pla"nute'rē) |
| 9 | p l a" n u t e' r ē | interplanetary. |
| 7 | -a" n u t e' r ē | sanitary, unsanitary. |
| 6 | -n u t e' r ē | dignitary, monetary, unitary. |
| 5 | -u t e' r ē | budgetary, cemetery, cometary, depositary, dietary, hereditary, military, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, proprietary, salutary, secretary, solitary, tributary, undersecretary. |
| 4 | -t e' r ē | commentary, dysentery, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary, monastery, sedentary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-n-p-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: parental, parlante, paternal, prenatal. | |
-2 letters: apetaly, aplenty, apteral, peartly, penalty, peytral, planate, plantar, planter, platane, plenary, preanal, pteryla, replant. | |
-3 letters: antler, antral, apneal, arpent, earlap, elytra, enrapt, entrap, lanate, learnt, lyrate, napery, nearly, neatly, palate, palter, paltry, pantry, parent, parlay, parley, partan, partly, pearly, peltry, pentyl, pertly, planar, planer, planet, platan, platen, plater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-n-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: apparently, parentally, paternally, pleasantry, prenatally. | |
+2 letters: explanatory, perinatally, phalanstery. | |
+3 letters: biparentally, inapparently, parenterally. | |
+4 letters: cryptanalyses, explanatorily, hyperrational, operationally, parliamentary, polycarbonate, transparently, uniparentally. | |
+5 letters: departmentally, exasperatingly, inseparability, interplanetary, nonexplanatory, polycarbonates, protoplanetary, supernaturally. | |
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