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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% ...
Liais, therefore, was "in a condition to deny, in the most positive manner, the passage of a planet over the sun at the time indicated". [18] Based on Lescarbault's "transit", Le Verrier computed Vulcan's orbit: it supposedly revolved about the Sun in a nearly circular orbit at a distance of 21 million kilometres (0.14 AU; 13,000,000 mi).
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 ...
Celaeno – name meaning "the dark one" Podarge – name meaning "fleet-footed" Horus (Ancient Egyptian) – deity; Inmyeonjo – bird with a human face; Itsumade – monstrous bird with a human face; Kalavinka – a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso and long flowing tail
Coreless planet: A terrestrial planet that has no metallic core. Desert planet: A terrestrial planet with little to no water. Extragalactic planet: A planet that is located outside the Milky Way galaxy Eyeball planet: A tidally locked planet where uneven heating of the surface induces spatial features resembling a human eye. Helium planet
On the planet First of the Sun (Sixth of the Dusk); Unnamed Telepathic Trees: Many flora and fauna on this planet communicate with a form of natural telepathy. Certain unnamed plants living on the islands that make up the Pantheon send false thoughts of wounded or frightened animals to attract predators, which often fight and leave victims dead ...
[2] [5] [21] [22] Similarly, stories about the end of the world involving the death of the Sun were written in the early 1900s by among others George C. Wallis, whose 1901 short story "The Last Days of Earth" depicts the last survivors leaving a frozen Earth for a potentially habitable planet in another planetary system, [4] [5] [23] and ...
"The generic name alludes to another toothed creature" [103] Danionella dracula Britz, Conway & Rüber, 2009: Ray-finned fish: Count Dracula "The species name dracula alludes to the long tooth-like fangs in the jaws in males of the new species and was inspired by Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel." [104] †Deinocroton draculi Peñalver, et ...