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Counter-Earth has made appearances in fiction since the late 1800s. [18] It is variously depicted as very similar to Earth or very different, [19] and often employed as a vehicle for satire. [20] Counter-Earth being inhabited by counterparts of the people of Earth is a recurring theme.
Since "counter" means "opposite", and opposite can only be in respect to the Central Fire, the Counter-Earth must be orbiting 180 degrees from Earth. [25] Burch also argues that Aristotle was simply having a joke "at the expense of Pythagorean number theory" and that the true function of the Counter-Earth was to balance Earth. [5]
Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...
Abstract diagram of the three-mooned planet Gor in earth's orbit, but opposite to earth (i.e. the "counter-earth" or "antichthon"), as described in the Gor series of science-fiction books by author John Norman. The diagram is obviously not to scale -- the sizes of the planets, moons, sun, and of the lunar orbits are all greatly exaggerated ...
Counter-Earth, a planet situated on the other side of the Sun from that of the Earth. Fifth planet (hypothetical), historical speculation about a planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Phaeton, a planet situated between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt. This hypothesis ...
In Philolaus's system a sphere of the fixed stars, the five planets, the Sun, Moon, and Earth, all moved around a Central Fire. According to Aristotle, writing in Metaphysics, Philolaus added a tenth unseen body, he called Counter-Earth, as without it there would be only nine revolving bodies, and the Pythagorean number theory required a tenth ...
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The Counter-Earth, or Antichthon, is from Greek cosmology.Speculation on such a world, you see, is ancient. One of the premises of the Gorean series is that a race of aliens, whom we might speak of as the Priest-Kings, have a technology at their disposal compared to which ours would be something like that in the Bronze Age.