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Definition of Inferior planet
1. Noun. Any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit.
Definition of Inferior planet
1. Noun. A planet that orbits the Sun within the orbit of the Earth, and thus does not show retrograde motion when viewed from Earth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inferior Planet
Literary usage of Inferior planet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In fact, all the motions of u inferior planet viewed from a superior one are
precisely tie same as those of the superior planet viewed from the inferior one ..."
2. The Elements of Theoretical and Descriptive Astronomy: For the Use of by Charles Joyce White (1901)
"The apparent motion of an inferior planet has been shown to be retrograde at and
near ... Now, since the earth is a superior planet to an inferior planet, ..."
3. Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and by John Pinkerton, Samuel Vince, Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"Hence, an inferior planet appears to move direct, from the stationary point R
before it comes to the superior conjunction, till it comes to the stationary ..."
4. Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural Philosophy (1834)
"The orbit of every inferior planet, however, being less than the sun's, the
smaller the orbit of the planet, the more does it differ from that of the sun ..."
5. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"But if the inferior planet s own proporti equalled a semitone, 15:16, ...
Therefore, the inferior planet ) less than a semitone in its own interval. ..."
6. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"Appearance produced by transit of an inferior planet. SOLAR ECLIPSES : 9.
Effects of the relative magnitude of the discs of the sun and moon.— 10. ..."
7. An Introduction to Astronomy by Forest Ray Moulton (1906)
"Is the synodic period of an inferior planet as seen from the earth the same as the
... What is the sidereal period in the case of an inferior planet? ..."
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