Planetary Orbit Quotes

Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun.

If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus.

Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.

'Earth' is a silly name for this planet.

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

If you were on the surface of Venus, assuming you could see the Sun, which, you know, would be hard because it's so cloudy there, but the Sun would actually rise in the west and set in the east. And, it would do so very, very slowly, because the planet rotates incredibly slowly.

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.