| 单词 | inferior planet |
| 释义 | inferior planet (once / 145918 pages) n WORD FAMILY inferior planet: inferior planets USAGE EXAMPLESOf the inferior planets, Mercury is so near the sun that it would be equally unfit for the residence of such beings. Hitchcock, Edward, The Plurality of Worlds(2011) Mercury and Venus have been termed the Inferior Planets, as being placed within the orbit of the Earth. Porter, Rufus, Scientific American magazine Vol 2....(2010) When the inferior planet is on the far side of the sun from us, it is said to be in Superior Conjunction. Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius, Astronomy of To-day—A Popular Intro...(2010) n any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit Exp|Hyper Mercury the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun Venusthe second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star' major planet, planet (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction |
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