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Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams..

Splendent :: Splendent (a.) Shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. See the Note under 3d Luster, 4..

Saturnian :: Saturnian (a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year..

Georgium Sidus :: Georgium Sidus () The planet Uranus, so named by its discoverer, Sir W. Herschel..

Erratic :: Erratic (a.) Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars..

Neptune :: Neptune (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years..

Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..

Aphelion :: Aphelion (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion..

Venus :: Venus (n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus..

Planetic :: Planetic (a.) Alt. of Planetica.

Dispositor :: Dispositor (n.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is.

Curtation :: Curtation (n.) The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.

Direct :: Direct (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body..

Regrede :: Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit..

Mars :: Mars (n.) The metallic element iron, the symbol of which / was the same as that of the planet Mars..

Radius Vector :: Radius vector (n.) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite..

Jove :: Jove (n.) The planet Jupiter.

Geocentrical :: Geocentrical (a.) Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet..

Saturn :: Saturn (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites..

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