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Inferior planet   /ɪnfˈɪriər plˈænət/   Listen
Inferior planet

noun
1.
Any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit.





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"Inferior planet" Quotes from Famous Books



... in (jestingly) attributing glassiness to an inferior planet. He made the inhabitants, however, not the air, glassy. 'The intense heat of the country,' he says, speaking of the planet Mercury, 'must, I think, long ago have vitrified the bodies of the inhabitants to suit them for the climate; ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor
... a transit of an inferior planet over the sun, this term means the passing off of ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


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