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giant planet
giant planet n. Astronomy each of the four largest planets in the solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune); a large planet, esp. a gas giant. Cf. ice giant n. 2, terrestrial adj. 2f.
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1868 Littell's Living Age 14 Nov. 422/1 He [sc. Whewell] drew..a dismal picture of the climatic relations presented by the giant planet Jupiter, an orb which exceeds our earth more than thirteen hundred times in volume.
1871 J. N. Lockyer & R. A. Proctor Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 4) i. ii. 170 He found that this widely extended path, by which the meteors are carried beyond the orbit of Uranus, and subjected to the perturbations of the giant planets outside the zone of asteroids, accounts perfectly for the observed motion of the node.
1942 Science 25 Dec. 13/1 Science developments of the year 1942... Discovery of a giant planet outside our solar system, a satellite of a star in Cygnus.
1978 J. M. Pasachoff & M. L. Kutner University Astron. xix. 477 These giant planets, or Jovian planets, not only are much bigger and more massive, but are also less dense... This suggests that the internal structure of these giant planets is entirely different from that of the four terrestrial planets.
2001 Nature 1 Feb. p. ix/3 The Oort cloud, a reservoir of planets beyond the orbits of Pluto and Neptune, was formed by ejection of icy planetismals from the giant planets region of the solar nebula.
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