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A planet symbol or planetary symbol is a graphical symbol used in astrology and astronomy to represent a classical planet (including the Sun and the Moon) or one of the modern planets.[1]

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  1. 170 relations: Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Alchemical symbol, Alchemy, Ancient Greek astronomy, Artemis, Asteroid, Astrological symbols, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astronomical symbols, Astronomische Nachrichten, Bad Wünnenberg, Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch, Bident, Biology, Boss (engineering), Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, Bureau des Longitudes, Caduceus, Carl Linnaeus, Celestial spheres, Ceres (dwarf planet), Christian cross, Circlet, Classical planet, Claudius Salmasius, Code point, Connaissance des Temps, Crescent, Cross, Daedalus (journal), Discordianism, Dwarf planet, Earth, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Eris (dwarf planet), Eta, Eusociality, Falun Municipality, Female, Femininity, Forbes, Four corners of the world, François Arago, Fraternitas Saturni, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Gender symbol, Globus cruciger, Gold, Halo (religious iconography), ... Expand index (120 more) »

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Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar (also Albusar, Albuxar; full name Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد بن عمر البلخي; 10 August 787 – 9 March 886, AH 171–272), was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad.

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Alchemical symbol

Alchemical symbols were used to denote chemical elements and compounds, as well as alchemical apparatus and processes, until the 18th century. Planet symbols and alchemical symbol are alchemical symbols.

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Alchemy

Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.

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Ancient Greek astronomy

Ancient Greek astronomy is the astronomy written in the Greek language during classical antiquity.

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Artemis

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity.

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Asteroid

An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.

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Astrological symbols

Historically, astrological and astronomical symbols have overlapped. Planet symbols and astrological symbols are astronomical symbols.

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Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is an American scientific and educational organization, founded in San Francisco on February 7, 1889, immediately following the solar eclipse of January 1, 1889.

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Astronomical symbols

Astronomical symbols are abstract pictorial symbols used to represent astronomical objects, theoretical constructs and observational events in European astronomy.

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Astronomische Nachrichten

Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes), one of the first international journals in the field of astronomy, was established in 1821 by the German astronomer Heinrich Christian Schumacher.

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Bad Wünnenberg

Bad Wünnenberg is a town in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch

The Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch (abbrev. B.A.J.) is an astronomical ephemeris almanac and one of the longest publication series in astronomy.

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Bident

A bident is a two-pronged implement resembling a pitchfork.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Boss (engineering)

In engineering, a boss is a protruding feature on a workpiece.

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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society is a scientific journal publishing original papers relating to the taxonomy of all plant groups and fungi, including anatomy, biosystematics, cytology, ecology, ethnobotany, electron microscopy, morphogenesis, palaeobotany, palynology and phytochemistry.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bureau des Longitudes

The Bureau des Longitudes is a French scientific institution, founded by decree of 25 June 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation.

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Caduceus

The caduceus (☤;; cādūceus, from κηρύκειον kērū́keion "herald's wand, or staff") is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Celestial spheres

The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others.

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Ceres (dwarf planet)

Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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Christian cross

The Christian cross, seen as a representation of the crucifixion of Jesus on a large wooden cross, is a symbol of Christianity.

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Circlet

A circlet is a piece of headwear that is similar to a diadem or a corolla.

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Classical planet

A classical planet is an astronomical object that is visible to the naked eye and moves across the sky and its backdrop of fixed stars (the common stars which seem still in contrast to the planets).

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Claudius Salmasius

Claude Saumaise (15 April 1588 – 3 September 1653), also known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar.

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Code point

A code point, codepoint or code position is a particular position in a table, where the position has been assigned a meaning.

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Connaissance des Temps

The Connaissance des temps (English: Knowledge of the Times) is an official yearly publication of astronomical ephemerides in France.

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Crescent

A crescent shape is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase (as it appears in the northern hemisphere) in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.

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Cross

A cross is a compound geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines segment, usually perpendicular to each other.

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Daedalus (journal)

Dædalus is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1846 as the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, obtaining its current title in 1958.

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Discordianism

Discordianism is a belief system based around Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and variously defined as a religion, new religious movement, virtual religion, or act of social commentary; though prior to 2005, some sources categorized it as a parody religion.

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Dwarf planet

A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance like the eight classical planets of the Solar System.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.

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Eris (dwarf planet)

Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System.

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Eta

Eta (uppercase, lowercase; ἦτα ē̂ta or ήτα ita) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel,.

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Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality.

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Falun Municipality

Falun Municipality (Falu kommun) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden.

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Female

An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.

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Femininity

Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Four corners of the world

Several cosmological and mythological systems portray four corners of the world or four quarters of the world corresponding approximately to the four points of the compass (or the two solstices and two equinoxes).

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François Arago

Dominique François Jean Arago (Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (Catalan: Francesc Aragó,; 26 February 17862 October 1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries and politician.

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Fraternitas Saturni

Fraternitas Saturni (lat.: "Brotherhood of Saturn") is a German magical order, founded in 1926 by Eugen Grosche a.k.a. Gregor A. Gregorius and four others.

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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 –) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist.

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Gender symbol

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Globus cruciger

The cross-bearing orb, also known as stavroforos sphaira (σταυροφόρος σφαίρα) or "the orb and cross", is an orb surmounted by a cross.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Halo (religious iconography)

A halo (also called a nimbus, '''aureole''', glory, or gloriole (translation) is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religions to indicate holy or sacred figures, and has at various periods also been used in images of rulers and heroes.

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Haumea

Haumea (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit.

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Heliocentrism

Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.

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Herman of Carinthia

Herman of Carinthia (1105/1110 – after 1154), also called Hermanus Dalmata or Sclavus Dalmata, Secundus, by his own words born in the "heart of Istria", was a philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician and translator of Arabic works into Latin.

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Hermes

Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods.

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Heteronormativity

Heteronormativity is the concept that heterosexuality is the preferred or normal sexual orientation.

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Hippocampus (mythology)

The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος|lit.

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Icarus (journal)

ICARUS is a scientific journal dedicated to the field of planetary science.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.

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Intersex

Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.

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James Pillans

James Pillans FRSE (1778–1864) was a Scottish classical scholar and educational reformer.

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Janus

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (Ianvs) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings.

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Johann Elert Bode

Johann Elert Bode (19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law.

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Johann Gottfried Köhler

Johann Gottfried Köhler (15 December 1745 – 19 September 1801) was a German astronomer who discovered a number of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Jupiter (god)

Jupiter (Iūpiter or Iuppiter, from Proto-Italic *djous "day, sky" + *patēr "father", thus "sky father" Greek: Δίας or Ζεύς), also known as Jove (gen. Iovis), is the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology.

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Kappa

Kappa (uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive; κάππα, káppa) is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound in Ancient and Modern Greek.

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Karlskoga Municipality

Karlskoga Municipality (Karlskoga kommun) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Loppi

Loppi (Loppi, also Loppis) is a municipality in Finland.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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Luna (goddess)

In Sabine and ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon (Latin Lūna). She is often presented as the female complement of the Sun, Sol, conceived of as a god.

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Lunar phase

A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth).

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Magical organization

A magical organization or magical order is an organization or secret society created for the practice of initiation into ceremonial or other forms of occult magic or to further the knowledge of magic among its members.

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Makemake

Makemake (minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and the second-largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt objects, with a diameter approximately that of Saturn's moon Iapetus, or 60% that of Pluto.

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Male

Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.

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Mars (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Mars (Mārs) is the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome.

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Maschwanden

Maschwanden is a village in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

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Men (deity)

Mēn (Greek: "month; Moon",Mensis Gerald L. Borchert. --> presumably influenced by Avestan måŋha) was a lunar god worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia.

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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992) is a book written by American author and relationship counselor John Gray.

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Mercury (mythology)

Mercury (Mercurius) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.

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Miscellaneous Symbols

Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.

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Monogram

A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Musaeum Hermeticum

Musaeum Hermeticum ("Hermetic library") is a compendium of alchemical texts first published in German, in Frankfurt, 1625 by Lucas Jennis.

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Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun.

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Neptune (mythology)

Neptune (Neptūnus) is the Roman god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion.

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Non-binary gender

Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.

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North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.

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Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius (753–672 BC; reigned 715–672 BC) was the legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus after a one-year interregnum.

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Obsolescence

Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state.

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Oxyrhynchus Papyri

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (modern el-Bahnasa).

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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 235

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 235 (P. Oxy. 235 or P. Oxy. II 235) is a horoscope written in Greek.

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Planisphere

In astronomy, a planisphere is a star chart analog computing instrument in the form of two adjustable disks that rotate on a common pivot.

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Plant reproductive morphology

Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.

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Platinum

Platinum is a chemical element; it has symbol Pt and atomic number 78.

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Pluto

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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Principia Discordia

The Principia Discordia is the first published Discordian religious text.

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Psyche (spacecraft)

Psyche is a NASA Discovery Program space mission launched on October 13, 2023 to explore the origin of planetary cores by orbiting and studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche beginning in 2029.

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Raised fist

The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a long-standing image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of solidarity, especially with a political movement.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz; Rheinland-Pfalz; Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany.

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Rho

Rho (uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ or; ρο or label) is the seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor.

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Roman mythology

Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences".

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Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.

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Sacred fire of Vesta

The sacred fire of Vesta was a sacred eternal flame in ancient Rome.

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Sala Municipality, Sweden

Sala Municipality (Sala kommun) is a municipality in Västmanland County in central Sweden.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Saturn (mythology)

Saturn (Sāturnus) was a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in Roman mythology.

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Scribal abbreviation

Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s.

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Sedna (dwarf planet)

Sedna (minor-planet designation: 90377 Sedna) is a dwarf planet in the outermost reaches of the Solar System, orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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Selene

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Selene (Σελήνη, meaning "Moon")A Greek–English Lexicon.

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Sickle

A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock.

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Silver mining

Silver mining is the extraction of silver by mining.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Sol (Roman mythology)

Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion.

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Solar symbol

A solar symbol is a symbol representing the Sun. Planet symbols and solar symbol are astronomical symbols and history of astrology.

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Speculum metal is a mixture of around two-thirds copper and one-third tin, making a white brittle alloy that can be polished to make a highly reflective surface.

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Stahlberg

Stahlberg is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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T and O map

A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625): "...the Isidoran tradition as it was known from peninsular examples, including the earliest of the ubiquitous T-O maps.

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Taxon (journal)

Taxon is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering plant taxonomy.

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA).

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The Observatory (journal)

The Observatory is a publication, variously described as a journal, a magazine and a review, devoted to astronomy.

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Trans-Neptunian object

A trans-Neptunian object (TNO), also written transneptunian object, is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than Neptune, which has an orbital semi-major axis of 30.1 astronomical units (au).

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Trident

A trident is a three-pronged spear.

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Trident of Poseidon

The trident of Poseidon and his Roman equivalent, Neptune, has been their traditional divine attribute in many ancient depictions.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.

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United States Naval Observatory

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (University o Edinburgh, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Uppland

Uppland is a historical province or on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital.

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Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

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Urbain Le Verrier

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

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Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun.

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Venus (mythology)

Venus is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

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Verdigris

Verdigris is a common name for any of a variety of somewhat poisonousKarmakar, Rabindra N. (2015).

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Viking program

The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, which landed on Mars in 1976.

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Volvo

The Volvo Group (Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg.

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William Herschel

Frederick William Herschel (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer and composer.

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William T. Stearn

William Thomas Stearn (16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist.

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Woman

A woman is an adult female human.

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Worker bee

A worker bee is any female bee that lacks the reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee and carries out the majority of tasks needed for the functioning of the hive.

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Zeta

Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; ζῆτα, label, classical or zē̂ta; zíta) is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Zeus

Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.

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Zhulong (mythology)

Zhulong or Zhuyin, also known in English as the, was a giant red solar dragon and god in Chinese mythology.

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Zodiac

The zodiac is a belt-shaped region of the sky that extends approximately 8° north and south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year.

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10 Hygiea

Hygiea (minor-planet designation: 10 Hygiea) is a major asteroid located in the main asteroid belt.

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120347 Salacia

Salacia (minor-planet designation: 120347 Salacia) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt, approximately in diameter.

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174567 Varda

174567 Varda (provisional designation) is a binary trans-Neptunian planetoid of the resonant hot classical population of the Kuiper belt, located in the outermost region of the Solar System.

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2 Pallas

Pallas (minor-planet designation: 2 Pallas) is the third-largest asteroid in the Solar System by volume and mass.

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20000 Varuna

20000 Varuna (provisional designation) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt.

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2060 Chiron

2060 Chiron is a ringed small Solar System body in the outer Solar System, orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus.

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28978 Ixion

28978 Ixion (provisional designation) is a large trans-Neptunian object and a possible dwarf planet.

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3 Juno

Juno (minor-planet designation: 3 Juno) is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt.

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4 Vesta

Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of.

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5 Astraea

Astraea (minor planet designation: 5 Astraea) is an asteroid in the asteroid belt.

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5145 Pholus

5145 Pholus is an eccentric centaur in the outer Solar System, approximately in diameter, that crosses the orbit of both Saturn and Neptune.

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6 Hebe

Hebe (minor planet designation: 6 Hebe) is a large main-belt asteroid, containing around 0.5% of the mass of the belt.

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7 Iris

Iris (minor planet designation: 7 Iris) is a large main-belt asteroid and possible remnant planetesimal orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

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7066 Nessus

7066 Nessus is a very red centaur on an eccentric orbit, located beyond Saturn in the outer Solar System.

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8 Flora

Flora (minor planet designation: 8 Flora) is a large, bright main-belt asteroid.

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9 Metis

Metis (minor planet designation: 9 Metis) is one of the larger main-belt asteroids.

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See also

Alchemical symbols

Astronomical symbols

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_symbols

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