[DOC] [TLE] The History of How We Discovered All the Planets in the Solar System [PAR] Mar 1, 2013 ... For many centuries, humanity believed that Earth wasn't an object such as those 
.... They first reached Jupiter two years later: Voyager 1 arrived in March ... 
However, it wasn't until Galileo turned his attention to the planet in 1610 .... It's a 
Greek word meaning "wanderer," which referred to the fact that these... [DOC] [TLE] How did people discover the planets? - UCSB Science Line [PAR] Answer 1: I think that the first people to discover that planets were not just stars 
were ... What are some of the other objects that these ancient people discovered? 
... The word planet means "wanderer" Greek. ... It wasn't until the 17th century that 
people looked closely at the planets through ... This was late in the 16th century. [DOC] [TLE] Ancients Greeks knew about planets, how did they recognize them ... [PAR] Actually, it's right in the name. Planet comes from the Greek phrase (transliterated 
to Latin ... The other 5 of the 7 aster planetes are the non-Earth planets the 
Greeks knew about: ... Neptune wasn't properly discovered until the 19th century, 
after it was noticed that ... The word "planet" comes from the Greek word for 
wanderer. [DOC] [TLE] What Is a Planet? - Space.com [PAR] May 22, 2014 ... The term "planet" originally comes from the Greek word for "wanderer." Many 
ancient cultures observed these "moving stars," but it wasn't until... [DOC] [TLE] Pluto's Honor | Neil deGrasse Tyson - Hayden Planetarium [PAR] February 1, 1999 in the Read section ... In fact Pluto and Charon's barycenter, the 
point around which planet and moon ... But there is no question that if Pluto were 
discovered today, it would not be ... stars a planet (the Greek word for wanderer 
transliterates to planet). ... It wasn't rocky like Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. [DOC] [TLE] ELI5: Why is our moon simply named "Moon" and the earth simply ... [PAR] It wasn't until telescopes were turned to the skies in the late 1500s/early 1600s ... 
Earth is in fact a Germanic pagan deity, whose physical representation is, you ... 
When we discovered them we had to give them names other than "moon." 
Planets is from the Greek word for wanderer, as planets were seen as wandering 
skys. [DOC] [TLE] A Brief History of Gravity: A story not about science, but about the ... [PAR] A few centuries B.C. the Greeks described the first realistic model of the universe. 
... of motion; they named these objects planets, from the Greek word for wanderer
. ... Interested in astronomical observations, he discovered a new star at the age 
... of the universe; he invented one of his own, by placing the earth again at the... [DOC] [TLE] Why Pluto is No Longer a Planet - Universe Today [PAR] Oct 16, 2016 ... They had discovered an object, further out than the orbit of Pluto that was ..... 
Wasn't the thinking behind the clears its orbit criteria basically that there ..... 
What if one is larger than our Earth and hasn't consolidated it's mass into ... term 
Planet comes from a Greek word that means rogue or wanderer [DOC] [TLE] Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, was discovered in the year ... [PAR] About sixty years later, two astronomersone English, one Frenchtackled the 
... from the Greek word meaning wanderer. ... The Earth itself, he said, also 
revolved about the Sun. The Moon, however .... If Uranus had not been 
discovered until 1781, it was no surprise that a planet .... Challis, however, still 
wasn't interested. [DOC] [TLE] Science in the Qur'an? Surely you're joking, Mr. Muslim! [PAR] But Allah didn't mean the Earth's atmosphere by the word heaven, because the 
Sun ... Do not try to figure out how to distort, twist, and re-interpret the data, so 
that they ..... The

Question: This word is from the Greek for "wanderer"; the fact that the Earth was one wasn't figured out till later
Answer: planet