who gave the planets names?
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Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were all known in ancient times.  They are named after Roman mythological figures (other societies had different names for them, but the Roman names are what we use in the West).  Uranus (1700s), Neptune (1800s), and Pluto (1930) were discovered after the invention of the telescope, but the tradition of Roman Gods was continued by the discoverers.  The only discoverer's name I can remember is the famous astronomer William Herschel, who discovered Uranus.  I'm sure you can find out the names of Neptune's and Pluto's discoverers with a Google search.
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(to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star")\n\nI know the planets one by one\nStarting with the one that's closest to the sun.\nMercury, Venus, Earth and Mars,\nAre the first four among the stars.\nJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune\nAre the next planets in my tune.\nPluto's the farthest one from the sun.\nI know the planets one by one.\n\nIf you like it choose it as best answer...... It would be a "Thank You" for what I've done.
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(Vulcan- no longer there, refer to first article), Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, (Minerva- another defunc planet now an asteroid belt), Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and tenth planet.\n\nI believe the 10th planet(Planet X) is temporarily called Xena, and its moon(let) Gabrielle. I don't know when the Astronomy Body of Scientists responsible for naming the heavenly bodies will formally announce the name and nature of the planet as, up to now, they are even questioning if it is a planet or merely an overly large asteroid.
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Shortly after its discovery, Neptune was referred to simply as "the planet exterior to Uranus" or as "Le Verrier's planet." The first suggestion for a name came from Galle. He proposed the name Janus. In England, Challis put forth the name Oceanus, particularly appropriate for a seafaring people. In France, Arago suggested that the new planet be called Leverrier, a suggestion which was met with stiff resistance outside France. French almanacs promptly reintroduced the name Herschel for Uranus and Leverrier for the new planet.\n\nMeanwhile, on separate and independent occasions, Adams suggested altering the name Georgian to Uranus, while Leverrier (through the Board of Longitude) suggested Neptune for the new planet. Struve came out in favor of that name on December 29, 1846, to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.4 Soon Neptune became the internationally accepted nomenclature. In Roman mythology Neptune was the god of the sea, identified with the Greek Poseidon. The demand for a mythological name seemed to be in keeping with the nomenclature of the other planets all of which, except for Uranus, were named in antiquity.
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In 2003, Mike Brown of Caltech and other scientists (Trujillo and Rabinowitz) discovered another planet-sized body, larger than Pluto, far out beyond Pluto.  Following the convention for temporary names of newly discovered astronomical bodies, it was temporarily named 2003 UB313.  The astronomers who discovered it also used a 'code name' - Xena - among themselves.  But the official name will be decided the the International Astronomical Union, the organization that has the last word on such things.  \n\nXena is a pretty cool name, but there is no chance that it will be the final name.  There are no rules for naming astronomical objects, but since all the others are named for Greek and Roman gods, there's a good chance that this one will have a name from mythology, too.  The bad news is that all the good names have been taken (by planets, moons, asteroids, and other big rocks out there).  \n\nAnd some other potential bad news is that not only is the IAU going to name this thing, but it's going to decide if it even should be called a planet.  Since UB313 is bigger than Pluto, there's a chance that Pluto may also be downgraded - we may end up not with 10 plantets, but only 8 - going backwards!\n\nThe second web site, below, gives lots of great info about UB313, direct from the horses mouth, Mike Brown himself.  It's a well-written web site, written (mostly) in layman's language, and has lots of questions and answers about all kinds of things related to this discovery.  Check it out!
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mercury, mars, venus, earth, jupiter, saturn, uranus, pluto and neptune.
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The Babylonians.\n\nBut that's astrology, not astronomy. Big difference.
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by the name pluto and uranus\n\nummmm emailance i really don't think ur gonna get a story at the end
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we already found a 10th planet in our solar system, but it's still unclear if it's considered as planet (some say it is too small).\nThe name of the "10th planet" is Sedna.
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Discovery of the 10th planet!  Recent discovery.  Not much info. yet so no one can say if you are wrong on any point!
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I thought it was Xena, but:\nThe planet, with the current temporary (and unfortunate) name 2003UB313, was discovered in an ongoing survey at Palomar Observatory's Samuel Oschin telescope by astronomers Mike Brown (Caltech), Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), and David Rabinowitz (Yale University). \n\nAbout the name: The real name of the new planet is currently in limbo while committees decide its fate. For those speculating that the name will be "Lila" based on the web site name I must warn you that that is really just a sentimental dad's early-morning-after-no-sleep naming of a web site for his (at the time) three week old daughter and one should not take it too seriously! In fact, the sentimental dad was so tired he even spelled his own daughter's name wrong (it is "Lilah"). The name  "Xena" is frequently heard associated with this planet; this name comes from an  internal cod name that we used before we publically announced the existence of the planet. Other code names have been "Santa" (2003 EL61), "Rudolph" (the moon of 2003 EL61), "Easterbunny" (2005 FY9) and "Flying Dutchman" (Sedna), and "Gabrielle" (the moon of 2003 UB313). We use these names internally simply because they are easier to say and remember than things like 2003 EL61 or S/2005 (2003 UB313) 1 . There is no chance whatsoever that these will become the permanent names of these objects! As soon as the committees make their decisions these objects will  get real names. When we first announced the existence of these objects we thought that the real names would be decided in days to weeks, not months to years so it never occured to us that these code names would last more than a few days. We hope the committees decide soon  so people can start getting used to the real more dignified names soon!
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The guys from "the cage"?   the planet was Talos some-number-or-other and they were referred to as Talosians.
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I believe they weren't discovered all at the same time so there are different people that discovered them. Is this your homework from school? I don't know how it would be helpful to know their names.. but anyway, Hope you find your answer!
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The order of planets? \n\nMercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
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I believe the "ancients" that the above is refering to are the Greeks.  The Romans, more specifically Julius Cesar, instigated using the calander we use today, but borrowed the names of the moon phases from the Greeks when they conquered them.
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It is the red planet because it is red.  I don't know if the planets were given the names first or the Gods, but either way Mars was the God of war, which I am sure is why that God is associated with that planet.
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Monday - Named for the day of the moon\nTuesday - Named for Germanic god Tiw.\nWednesday - Named for Norse god of war and wisdom, Woden (Odin).\nThursday - Named for Norse god Thor\nFriday - Named for Norse goddess Frigg\nSaturday - Named for the day of Saturn\n\nThese names are older than you and me..