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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 ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština ...
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 ...
Fiction set on dwarf planets (2 C, 1 P) E. Fiction about Earth (15 C, 21 P) J. ... Fiction about the Sun (1 C, 18 P) T. Fiction about trans-Neptunian objects (2 C, 9 ...
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. ... that fictional planets of the Solar System include a planet inside the orbit of Mercury , Counter-Earth , and a destroyed planet between Mars and Jupiter (schematic diagram of orbits ...
Other purposes for Mercury in modern science fiction include as a base for studying the Sun, as in the 1980 novel Sundiver by David Brin where humans attempt to determine whether there is extraterrestrial life inside the Sun. [2] [3] [16] Similarly, the planet is used as a solar power station in the 2005 novel Mercury, part of Ben Bova's Grand ...
This category is for the fictional use of real planets and dwarf planets. For completely fictional planets see: Category:Fictional planets. Subcategories.
The Sun received comparatively little specific attention in early science fiction; [2] prior to the late 1800s, when Mars became the most popular celestial object in fiction, the Sun was a distant second to the Moon. [3] A large proportion of the works that nevertheless did focus on the Sun portrayed it as having inhabitants.