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Belonging to planets...
Planetic
Of or pertaining to planets...
Planet stricken
Affected by the influence of planets blasted...
Astrology
Astrology, Astrology is a science which claims to foretell the future or make predictions by studying the supposed influence of the relative positions of the moon, sun, planets and other stars on human affairs. It, requires study of celestial bodies, of their positions, magnitudes, motions and distances, etc. Astronomy is a pure science. It was studied as a subject in ancient India and India has produced great astronomers, long before anyone in the Western world studied it as a subject. Since Astrology is partly based upon study of movement of sun, earth, planets and other celestial bodies, it is a study of science at least to some extent, P.M. Bhargava v. U.G.C., (2004) 6 SCC 661 (669): AIR 2004 SC 3478. See also Vedic Astrology.Astrology is either a science or a pseudo-science the forecasting of earthly and human events by means of observing and interpreting the fixed stars, the sun, the moon and the planets has exerted a sometimes extensive and a sometimes peripheral inference in ma...
Eclipse
An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun moon or other luminous body by the intervention of some other body either between it and the eye or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earths shadow a solar eclipse by the moon coming between the sun and the observer A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet though of the nature of an eclipse is called an occultation The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet...
magnetosphere
the magnetic field of a planet the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planets magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field...
Curtate
Shortened or reduced said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth as measured in the plane of the ecliptic or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic meets the ecliptic...
Epicycle
A circle whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle or a small circle whose center being fixed in the deferent of a planet is carried along with the deferent and yet by its own peculiar motion carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center...
Occultation
The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries...
Biquintile
An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle that is twice 72 degrees...
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