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Jun 8, 2024 · Mandarin has 地球 (dìqiú, from dí: land, qiú: global — global land). This suggests that humans everywhere named our planet with the word for what we stand on: the ground, the land. The convention...
- Anna Rascouët-Paz
Jun 7, 2024 · Why Do We Call Our Planet “Earth”? The English word "Earth" has roots connecting it to far older names, but why have we stuck with it as the name for our planet? Dr. Russell Moul
Jun 8, 2024 · Planet, broadly, any relatively large natural body that revolves in an orbit around the Sun or around some other star and that is not radiating energy from internal nuclear fusion reactions. There are eight planets orbiting the Sun in the solar system.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Telescopic observations resulted in the discovery of moons and rings around planets, and new planets, comets and the asteroids; the recognition of planets as other worlds, of Earth as another planet, and stars as other suns; the identification of the Solar System as an entity in itself, and the determination of the distances to some nearby stars.
Jun 19, 2024 · Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.
2 days ago · Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system and the fifth in distance from the Sun. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; only the Moon, Venus, and sometimes Mars are more brilliant.
6 days ago · Its gravity holds our planet in its orbit, and solar energy drives the seasons, ocean currents, weather, climate, radiation belts, and auroras on Earth. The solar wind, a flow of charged particles from the Sun, constantly bombards Earth’s magnetosphere, a vast magnetic shield around the planet.
