major planet

DEFINITIONS OF: major planet

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a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky; Earth
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; Jupiter
the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; Red Planet
a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color; Mercury
the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun; Neptune
a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; Pluto
a small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets; Saturn
a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun; Uranus
a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites; Venus
the 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'

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any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit; Jovian planet, gas giant
any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter); Lucifer, Phosphorus, daystar, morning star
a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky; outer planet
(astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto); superior planet
any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit; terrestrial planet
a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system

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