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The recognition of differences between planets and stars is not a recent acquisition of mankind. Thousands of years ago it was noted that several’ stars’ did not behave as all the others; they move across the stellar background along regular paths. In order to emphasize this difference, the ‘erratic stars’ were called Open image in new window
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- Accretion; Comet: impacts on Earth; Earth; Planet: extrasolar; History of planetary science I; History of planetary science II; Jupiter; Life: origin; Mars; Mercury; Neptune; Planetary rotation; Pluto; Saturn; Solar system: origin; Uranus; Venus
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