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In 1952, papers speculated that flying saucers were "not carriers for the inhabitants of other planets" but rather that flying saucers "are the living creatures from another planet". [8] In 1953, Walter Karig speculated in American Weekly that the objects behaved more like "puppies" than spaceships.
Chiron, a moon of Saturn supposedly sighted by Hermann Goldschmidt in 1861 but never observed by anyone else.; Chrysalis, a hypothetical moon of Saturn, named in 2022 by scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using data from the Cassini–Huygens mission, thought to have been torn apart by Saturn's tidal forces, somewhere between 200 and 100 million years ago, with up to 99% ...
A creature dubbed "Ceticaris", conceived by artist John Meszaros as a filter-feeding anomalocarid, was published in the 2013 book All Your Yesterdays, and in 2014, the actual Cambrian anomalocarid Tamisiocaris was discovered to have been a filter-feeder. In honor of Meszaros's prediction, Tamisiocaris was included in a new clade named the ...
[3] [16] [33] [46] Another variation on the rogue planet motif involves planets in the Solar System leaving their orbit around the Sun and becoming rogue planets drifting through space, as happens to the Earth by chance in Fritz Leiber's 1951 short story "A Pail of Air" and by design in Liu Cixin's 2000 short story "The Wandering Earth" and its ...
The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed below, along with the two small Martian moons; in some cases they are accompanied by their demonymic equivalents, which denote hypothetical inhabitants of these bodies.
Schematic diagram of the orbits in a binary star system. One planet is in a P-type, or circumbinary, orbit around both stars. Another planet is in an S-type, or circumstellar, orbit around only one of the two stars. Circumbinary planets are sometimes nicknamed "Tatooine worlds" after the Star Wars planet. [17]
Aubeck found one story from 1899 in the Atlanta Constitution, about a little green-skinned alien, in a tale called Green Boy From Hurrah, "Hurrah" being another planet, perhaps Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs referred to the "green men of Mars" and "green Martian women" in his first science fiction novel A Princess of Mars (1912), [ 4 ] although at ...
Legendary creatures of the Argentine Northwest region; Mythical creatures in Burmese folklore; List of Greek mythological creatures; List of legendary creatures from Japan; List of Philippine mythological creatures; Supernatural beings in Slavic folklore