How did the planets get their names? | SPACE WORDS

I don't use a memory trick to remember the names of the planets. I am almost 30 and I still sing the planet song from Blue's Clues. I have not actually heard the song in over a decade since playing it for my neice and nephew, yet I never have forgotten it.

2:39 SAY IT NORMALLY! Not "eYe-AyE-eHn", say "EE-AHNN!"😡😡😡

Mercury the metal is not just quicksilver because of it's movement - it is highly toxic and if placed on one's hands (one should not touch it), it will be quickly absorbed into the body since the skin is porous - and thus would quickly disappear - hence mercury's name not just that it moves quickly.- but it darts into oblivion.

The 12 of the Zodiac are unique because they are the constellations directly on the path of the ecliptic which is the path the sun traverses over the course of a year. It appears that there are 12, but since the spacing is not equal, one could argue that there is a 13th constellation but officially it isn't.

Perhaps Uranus is different because of it's odd spin and plane of movement - it is a planet in reverse - in which it spins in the opposite direction and it's polar north is not in the same direction as the other planets

10:03 Could you liguistically explain the "-us" ending of "Uranus". You say it was a Greek God, but to my knowledge, an "-us" suffix didn't exist in ancient Greek? Shouldn't it have been "-os"? So, is this a latinized version of a Greek word?
Edit: Oh, I looked in Wikipedia. Apparently it is. 😂

Suggestion: It's a very long shot, but are there words (or writing conventions, letters, ways of organizing dictionaries or other information) in English that derive from ancient Mesopotamia? If so, it would be a great reason to get Dr. Irving Finkel to be a guest. I'm sure he's in high demand, but he's a fantastic presenter!

In Croatian too we say zemlja for land, soil and Zemlja for our planet.

I've subscribed. I seen these two the first earlier this year. Now I just enjoy listening/watching these two play around with words. Thx guys.

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"the reason i brought up Uranus" im sorry miss your brought what? leave it in its place please.

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I was also sad when Pluto was declassified but Neil deGrasse Tyson explained it in a video that there are other objects in its orbital path so it can't be considered a planet until it dominates its own orbit

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I'm late to this party. But one thing that I thought was cool was the set of Japanese names for the planets.

With the exception of Earth (*clearly* the special one), the first six planets from Mercury to Saturn are named after the five classical Chinese elements. So you have:

水星 (Suisei): Mercury = "water-star"
金星 (Kinsei): Venus = "metal-star"
火星 (Kasei): Mars = "fire-star"
木星 (Mokusei): Jupiter = "wood-star"
土星 (Dosei): Saturn = "earth-star" (a little misleading)

More interestingly we have the names for Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (which is no longer a planet):
天王星 (Ten'nosei): Uranus = "heaven-king star"
海王星 (Kaiosei): Neptune = "sea-king star"
冥王星 (Meiosei): Pluto = "hidden-king star" (for his association with the Underworld.)
So you have a trio of kings - ruling the land, sea, and sky.

Why is Urine s more polite than Your anus?

10:17 well the Greek version is actually Ouranos. The Roman is Uranus. It's already similar anyway.

On another note, know why Uranus's moons are named Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, Miranda? Moons of planets are typically named after the characters related to the Greek counterpart of the god they're named after. Jupiter, aka Zeus, has Ganymede, Io, Europa, and Callisto. These are characters Zeus had dealings with. They're all the same pattern, except for Uranus, who instead has characters from Shakespeare. Why?

Well because Uranus used to be named George. When they renamed the planet, they let the moons be named after British culture, such as the Shakespeare characters, as a nod.

Uranus is the latinized name of the Greek name Ouranos, meaning "sky".

I'm sorry, but "jam sandwich" isn't very Paddington, because Paddinton very clearly preferered marmalade sandwiches, which, you know, are different... 😛

I love that Uranus was originally called George

5:06 just like space shuttle :) In Polish we call a space shuttle "wahadłowiec". "Wahadło" is a pendulum - back and forth, back and forth... ;)

1:37 ...and Polish. "Ziemia" is a homonym and still means either soil/ground and the planet Earth (in this case we use capital letter - Ziemia).

0:11 - I can see a cool Cannondale bike on the wall, so next up: bike terminology! Spokes, pedals, chain, handlebars... ;)

Earth came from the original belief that the planet was created by a celestial named Ea who at the end of her life underwent a transformation to be able to sustain life. The Schumann's resonance is also known as Earths heart beat. Or the beat of Ea's Heart= Earth

I had the nine pizzas one growing up. I assumed "us" was like a party? 😂

I believe Pluto has 5 moons. To me it's a planet!

@6:33 Rob, you're referring to retrograde motion, an apparent reversal of travel (of Mars only?) caused by multiple moving frames of reference (like two trains slowly moving side by side at a station), but Jess is right about the meaning of "planet". They were "stars" that moved. The other "stars" remained fixed relative to each other. Five of those points of light "wandered" in that otherwise fixed field of points of lights.

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My German mnemonic is "Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Samstag unsere neun Planeten", i.e. "My father explains our nine planets to me every Saturday".

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My very EAGER mother just served us nine pizzas.

4:05 having a beard helps with identifying, 'men' with beard's & 'women' NOT having a beard😊obvious when pointed out 😊

Aren't the days of the week named after the Sun, Moon and 5 visible planets (MVMJS), personified as gods?

so the choices of pronunciation for the word "Uranus" are "your anus" or "urinous" (possible adjective from urine)!

I love that Rob blushes about a lot of things, but he is prone to saying “do-do” 21:35

Just a minor point here, but Jess said that bears do not live in the southern hemisphere. However, one bear species, the spectacled bear, lives in the Andes Mountains in South America, which is south of the equator. That said, it is the only one that does.

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Never thought about planet mnemonics in other languages, but I am quite astounded that the English ones don't have anything to do with astronomy itself. The German ones for 9 and 8 planets, respectively, are:
Mein Vater Erklärt Mir Jeden Tag Unsere Neun Planeten (My father explains our nine planets to me every day) and
Mein Vater Erklärt Mir Jeden Tag Unseren Nachthimmel (My father explains our night sky to me every day)
Which come together with the topic of astronomy really nice. 🙂

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a third less offensive perhaps option for Uranus could be "u-ron-us" since "urine-us" too may be an issue, but I guess it is whichever it's intended to be 😄

So where do all the starlings come from?

26:12 “excentric”. The correct spelling is eccentric. While "excentric" is a variant spelling, "eccentric" is the standard and more common form in modern English.
Correct spelling: E-C-C-E-N-T-R-I-C.
Meaning: Deviating from the conventional or expected; odd or unusual. It can also refer to a technical meaning of not being at the geometric center, notes Merriam-Webster.
Variant spelling: "Excentric" is an older or less common variant, notes Merriam-Webster.

Meteor in Greek doesn’t only refer to weather phenomena, for example there is the village of Meteora, in Greece near Volos, which is so named for its monasteries built a the top of high cliffs and in some cases towering columns of rock. Meteora is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.