inferior planet

As an inferior planet, it always lies within about 47 of the Sun.

I am now in good health and fair spirits, among friendly people on an inferior planet, at a very great distance from the sun.

The terms are sometimes used more generally: for instance, the Earth is an inferior planet as seen from Mars.

"Inferior planet" should also not be confused with the very different asteroid or dwarf planet.

Note that an inferior planet can never be at quadrature to the reference planet.

When an inferior planet is visible after sunset, it is near its greatest eastern elongation.

The inferior planet mechanism is again similar to Wright's mechanism however it uses fewer gears.

"Inferior planet" is also very different to minor planet or dwarf planet.

The inferior planets were always observed to be near the sun, appearing only shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset.

Inferior planet is an archaic term that is sometimes used to refer to the planets Mercury and Venus.

In an inferior conjunction, the superior planet is "in opposition" to the Sun as seen from the inferior planet.

Inferior planets such as Venus generally have a low phase angle as seen from Earth, so they are often viewed as a crescent.

"Inferior planet" is used in reference to Mercury and Venus, which are closer to the Sun than the Earth is.

TheStarshine roared from the almost-barren world which was an inferior planet of the sunAlphin , not worth colonization by men.

All I have to do is get in that dice game, win Ao and both tickets and shake the dust of this inferior planet from my feet."

By the time The Descendant was in print, Glasgow had finished Phases of an Inferior Planet.

Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never appears to venture far from the Sun: its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8 .

As seen from a planet that is superior, an inferior planet on the opposite side of the Sun is in superior conjunction with the Sun.

Eventually, perhaps, it would wipe out the four inferior planets, or perhaps it would be broken as it came within the Roches limit of that sun.

The morning star is an appearance of the planet Venus, an inferior planet, meaning that its orbit lies between that of the Earth and the Sun.

Their model simulates the solar anomaly, inferior planets and superior planets and indicates their positions on the front face along with the date and lunar pointers.

This can happen only with inferior planets, namely Mercury and Venus (see transit of Mercury and transit of Venus).

The terms "inferior conjunction" and "superior conjunction" are used in particular for the planets Mercury and Venus, which are inferior planets as seen from the Earth.

The term inner planet should not be confused with inferior planet, which designates those planets that are closer to the Sun than Earth is (i.e. Mercury and Venus).

Wittich may have been influenced by Valentin Naboth's book Primarum de coelo et terra in adopting the Capellan system to explain the motion of the inferior planets.