• Question: How were the planets found, how where they named. Who named them

    Asked by anon-269605 to Oriana on 24 Nov 2020.
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      ORIANA TREJO ALVAREZ answered on 24 Nov 2020:

      Hey Haika, what a great question. The first planets to be known where mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn and they were named after the roman gods of mercury (trading), venus (beauty), mars (war), jupiter (he was the main god for the romans, like zeus for the greek culture) and saturn (god of agriculture).

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    Oriana commented on :

    They where discovered by Galileo Galilei however previous cultures noticed that there was a difference in the sky between stars and some objects they name as planets, which meaning is “wanderer”. The word was originally applied to any of seven visible celestial bodies which appeared to move independently of the fixed stars