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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_(planet_hipotetis)" title="Phaeton (planet hipotetis) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Phaeton (planet hipotetis)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pianeti_ipotetici#Fetonte" title="Pianeti ipotetici – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Pianeti ipotetici" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faetonas_(planeta)" title="Faetonas (planeta) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Faetonas 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<div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Phaeton_(planet)&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Phaeton (planet)">Phaeton (planet)</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Hypothetical former Solar System planet</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Phaeton_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Phaeton (disambiguation)">Phaeton</a>.</div> <p><b>Phaeton</b> (alternatively <b>Phaethon</b> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/θ/: 'th' in 'thigh'">θ</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span> or <b>Phaëton</b> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span>; from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Φαέθων</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ancient_Greek" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Ancient Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ancient Greek-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Phaéthōn</i></span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="el-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek" title="Help:IPA/Greek">[pʰa.é.tʰɔːn]</a></span>) was the <a href="/wiki/List_of_hypothetical_Solar_System_objects" title="List of hypothetical Solar System objects">hypothetical planet</a> hypothesized by the <a href="/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law" title="Titius–Bode law">Titius–Bode law</a> to have existed between the <a href="/wiki/Orbit" title="Orbit">orbits</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>, the destruction of which supposedly led to the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Asteroid_belt" title="Asteroid belt">asteroid belt</a> (including the <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarf planet</a> <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a>). The hypothetical planet was named for <a href="/wiki/Phaethon" title="Phaethon">Phaethon</a>, the son of the sun god <a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, who attempted to drive his father's solar chariot for a day with disastrous results and was ultimately destroyed by <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phaeton_hypothesis">Phaeton hypothesis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Phaeton hypothesis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sturz_des_Phaeton,_Deckengem%C3%A4lde_von_Johann_Michael_Franz_in_Eichst%C3%A4tt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sturz_des_Phaeton%2C_Deckengem%C3%A4lde_von_Johann_Michael_Franz_in_Eichst%C3%A4tt.jpg/220px-Sturz_des_Phaeton%2C_Deckengem%C3%A4lde_von_Johann_Michael_Franz_in_Eichst%C3%A4tt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sturz_des_Phaeton%2C_Deckengem%C3%A4lde_von_Johann_Michael_Franz_in_Eichst%C3%A4tt.jpg/330px-Sturz_des_Phaeton%2C_Deckengem%C3%A4lde_von_Johann_Michael_Franz_in_Eichst%C3%A4tt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sturz_des_Phaeton%2C_Deckengem%C3%A4lde_von_Johann_Michael_Franz_in_Eichst%C3%A4tt.jpg/440px-Sturz_des_Phaeton%2C_Deckengem%C3%A4lde_von_Johann_Michael_Franz_in_Eichst%C3%A4tt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2524" data-file-height="1653" /></a><figcaption><i>Sturz des Phaeton</i> (Fall of the Phaeton) by Johann Michael Franz</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Heinrich_Wilhelm_Olbers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Olbers.jpg/170px-Heinrich_Wilhelm_Olbers.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Olbers.jpg/255px-Heinrich_Wilhelm_Olbers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Olbers.jpg/340px-Heinrich_Wilhelm_Olbers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="716" data-file-height="950" /></a><figcaption>Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, who formulated the planet Phaeton hypothesis</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the hypothesized <a href="/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law" title="Titius–Bode law">Titius–Bode law</a> proposed in the 1700s to explain the spacing of planets in a solar system, a planet may have once existed between Mars and Jupiter. After learning of the regular sequence discovered by the German astronomer and mathematician <a href="/wiki/Johann_Daniel_Titius" title="Johann Daniel Titius">Johann Daniel Titius</a>, astronomer <a href="/wiki/Johann_Elert_Bode" title="Johann Elert Bode">Johann E. Bode</a> urged a search for the fifth planet corresponding to a gap in the sequence. <a href="/wiki/1_Ceres" class="mw-redirect" title="1 Ceres">(1) Ceres</a>, the largest <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroid</a> in the asteroid belt (now considered a <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarf planet</a>), was serendipitously discovered in 1801 by the Italian <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Piazzi" title="Giuseppe Piazzi">Giuseppe Piazzi</a> and found to closely match the "empty" position in <a href="/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law" title="Titius–Bode law">Titius' sequence</a>, which led many<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (August 2023)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> to believe it to be the "missing planet". However, in 1802 <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a> <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Matth%C3%A4us_Olbers" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers">Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers</a> discovered and named the asteroid <a href="/wiki/2_Pallas" title="2 Pallas">(2) Pallas</a>, a second object in roughly the same orbit as (1) Ceres. </p><p>Olbers proposed that these two discoveries were the fragments of a <a href="/wiki/Disrupted_planet" title="Disrupted planet">disrupted planet</a> that had formerly orbited the Sun,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and predicted that more of these pieces would be found. The discovery of the asteroid <a href="/wiki/3_Juno" title="3 Juno">(3) Juno</a> by <a href="/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Harding" title="Karl Ludwig Harding">Karl Ludwig Harding</a> and <a href="/wiki/4_Vesta" title="4 Vesta">(4) Vesta</a> by Olbers, buttressed his hypothesis. In 1823, German linguist and retired teacher <a href="/w/index.php?title=Johann_Gottlieb_Radlof&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Johann Gottlieb Radlof (page does not exist)">Johann Gottlieb Radlof</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Radlof" class="extiw" title="de:Johann Gottlieb Radlof">de</a>]</span> called Olbers' destroyed planet <i>Phaëthon</i>, linking it to the <a href="/wiki/Greek_myths_and_legends" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek myths and legends">Greek myths and legends</a> about <a href="/wiki/Phaethon" title="Phaethon">Phaethon</a> and others.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1927, <a href="/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Kugler" title="Franz Xaver Kugler">Franz Xaver Kugler</a> wrote a short book titled <i>Sibyllinischer Sternkampf und Phaëthon in naturgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung</i> (The Sybilline Battle of the Stars and Phaeton Seen as Natural History).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The central idea in Kugler's book is that the myth of Phaethon was based on a real event: Making use of ancient sources, Kugler argued that Phaeton had been a very bright celestial object that appeared around 1500 BC which fell to Earth not long afterwards as a shower of large meteorites, causing catastrophic fires and floods in Africa and elsewhere.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Hypotheses regarding the formation of the asteroid belt from the destruction of a hypothetical <a href="/wiki/Fifth_planet_(hypothetical)" title="Fifth planet (hypothetical)">fifth planet</a> are today collectively referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Fifth_planet_(hypothetical)#Disruption_theory" title="Fifth planet (hypothetical)">the disruption theory</a>". These hypotheses state that there was once a major planetary member of the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a> circulating in the present gap between Mars and Jupiter, which was destroyed by one or more of the following hypothetical processes:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul><li>it veered too close to Jupiter and was torn apart by its powerful tides</li> <li>it was struck by another large celestial body</li> <li>it was destroyed by a hypothetical <a href="/wiki/Brown_dwarf" title="Brown dwarf">brown dwarf</a>, the companion star to the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a>, known as <a href="/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)" title="Nemesis (hypothetical star)">Nemesis</a></li> <li>it was shattered by some internal catastrophe</li></ul> <p>In 1953, Soviet Russian astronomer <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ivan_I._Putilin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivan I. Putilin (page does not exist)">Ivan I. Putilin</a> suggested that Phaeton was destroyed due to <a href="/wiki/Centrifugal_force" title="Centrifugal force">centrifugal forces</a>, giving it a diameter of approximately 6,880 kilometres (4,280 mi) (slightly larger than Mars' diameter of 6,779 kilometres [4,212 mi]) and a rotational speed of 2.6 hours. Eventually, the planet became so distorted that parts of it near its equator were spun off into space. <a href="/wiki/Outgassing" title="Outgassing">Outgassing</a> of gases once stored in Phaeton's interior caused multiple explosions, sending material into space and forming <a href="/wiki/Asteroid_family" title="Asteroid family">asteroid families</a>. However, his hypothesis was not widely accepted. Two years later in 1955, <a href="/wiki/Odesa" title="Odesa">Odesan</a> astronomer <a href="/w/index.php?title=Konstantin_N._Savchenko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Konstantin N. Savchenko (page does not exist)">Konstantin N. Savchenko</a> suggested that Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta were not fragments of Phaeton, but rather its former moons. Phaeton had an additional fifth satellite, assumed to be the size of Ceres, orbiting near the planet's <a href="/wiki/Hill_sphere" title="Hill sphere">Hill sphere</a>, and thus more subject to gravitational perturbations from Jupiter. As a result, the fifth satellite became tidally detached and orbited the Sun for millions of years afterward, making periodic close misses with Phaeton that slowly increased its velocity. Once the escaped satellite re-entered Phaeton's Hill sphere, it collided with the planet at high speed, shattering it while Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta assumed heliocentric orbits. Simulations showed that for such a Ceres-sized body to shatter Phaeton, it would need to be travelling at nearly 20 kilometres per second (12 mi/s).<sup id="cite_ref-originoftheasteroids_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-originoftheasteroids-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The disrupted planet hypothesis was also supported by French–Italian mathematician and astronomer <a href="/wiki/Joseph-Louis_Lagrange" title="Joseph-Louis Lagrange">Joseph-Louis Lagrange</a> in 1814;<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Canadian geologist <a href="/wiki/Reginald_Daly" class="mw-redirect" title="Reginald Daly">Reginald Daly</a> in 1943;<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> American geochemists <a href="/wiki/Harrison_Brown" title="Harrison Brown">Harrison Brown</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clair_Patterson" class="mw-redirect" title="Clair Patterson">Clair Patterson</a> in 1948;<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soviet academics <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Zavaritskiy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Zavaritskiy (page does not exist)">Alexander Zavaritskiy</a> in 1948, <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Fesenkov" title="Vasily Fesenkov">Vasily Fesenkov</a> in 1950 (who later rejected his own model) and <a href="/wiki/Otto_Schmidt" title="Otto Schmidt">Otto Schmidt</a> (died 1956);<sup id="cite_ref-originoftheasteroids_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-originoftheasteroids-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> British–Canadian astronomer <a href="/wiki/Michael_Ovenden" title="Michael Ovenden">Michael Ovenden</a> in 1972–1973;<sup id="cite_ref-ovenden_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ovenden-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and American astronomer <a href="/wiki/Donald_Menzel" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Menzel">Donald Menzel</a> (1901–1976) in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ovenden suggested that the planet be named "<a href="/wiki/Krypton_(comics)" title="Krypton (comics)">Krypton</a>" after the destroyed native world of <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a>, as well as believing it to have been a <a href="/wiki/Gas_giant" title="Gas giant">gas giant</a> roughly eighty-five to ninety <a href="/wiki/Earth_mass" title="Earth mass">Earth masses</a> in mass and nearly the size of <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ovenden_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ovenden-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Today, the Phaeton hypothesis has been <a href="/wiki/Superseded_scientific_theories" class="mw-redirect" title="Superseded scientific theories">superseded</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Accretion_disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Accretion disc">accretion model</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most astronomers today believe that the asteroids in the main belt are remnants of the <a href="/wiki/Protoplanetary_disk" title="Protoplanetary disk">protoplanetary disk</a> that never formed a planet and that in this region the amalgamation of protoplanets into a planet was prevented by the disruptive gravitational perturbations of Jupiter during the formative period of the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_hypotheses">Other hypotheses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Other hypotheses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some scientists and non-scientists continue to advocate for the existence and destruction of a Phaeton-like planet. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin" title="Zecharia Sitchin">Zecharia Sitchin</a> suggested that the goddess known to the Sumerians as <a href="/wiki/Tiamat" title="Tiamat">Tiamat</a> in fact relates to a planet that was destroyed by a <a href="/wiki/Rogue_planet" title="Rogue planet">rogue planet</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin#Ideas_and_works" title="Zecharia Sitchin">Nibiru</a>, creating both Earth and the asteroid belt.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His work is widely regarded as <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscience</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The astronomer and author <a href="/wiki/Tom_Van_Flandern" title="Tom Van Flandern">Tom Van Flandern</a> held that Phaeton (which he called "Planet V", with V representing the Roman numeral for five and not to be confused with the <a href="/wiki/Planet_V" title="Planet V">other postulated former fifth planet not attributed to the formation of the asteroid belt</a>) exploded through some internal mechanism. In his "Exploded Planet Hypothesis 2000", he lists possible reasons for its explosion: a runaway nuclear reaction of uranium in its core, a change of state as the planet cooled down creating a density phase change, or through continual absorption of heat in the core from <a href="/wiki/Graviton" title="Graviton">gravitons</a>. Van Flandern even suggested that Mars itself may have been a moon of Planet V, due to its craters hinting to exposure to meteorite storms and its relatively low density compared to the other inner planets.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Flandern2007_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flandern2007-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1972, <a href="/wiki/Soyuzmultfilm" title="Soyuzmultfilm">Soyuzmultfilm</a> studios produced an animated <a href="/wiki/Short_film" title="Short film">short film</a> titled <i>Phaeton: The Son of Sun</i> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Фаэтон – Сын Солнца</span>), directed by <a href="/wiki/Vasiliy_Livanov" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasiliy Livanov">Vasiliy Livanov</a>, in which the asteroid belt is portrayed as the remains of a planet. The film also has numerous references to <a href="/wiki/Ancient_astronauts" title="Ancient astronauts">ancient astronauts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_fiction">In fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Fictional_planets_of_the_Solar_System#Phaëton" title="Fictional planets of the Solar System">Fictional planets of the Solar System § Phaëton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Asteroids_in_fiction#Remnants_of_a_planet" title="Asteroids in fiction">Asteroids in fiction § Remnants of a planet</a></div> <p>The hypothetical former fifth planet has been referenced in fiction since at least the late 1800s.<sup id="cite_ref-SFEAsteroids_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEAsteroids-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlAsteroids_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlAsteroids-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>, the planet is often called "Bodia" after <a href="/wiki/Johann_Elert_Bode" title="Johann Elert Bode">Johann Elert Bode</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlAsteroids_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlAsteroids-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GernsbackYearsScienceFictionSolarSystem_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GernsbackYearsScienceFictionSolarSystem-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the <a href="/wiki/Pulp_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Pulp era">pulp era</a> of science fiction, Bodia was a recurring theme. In these stories it is typically <a href="/wiki/Earth_analog" title="Earth analog">similar to Earth</a> and inhabited by humans, often advanced humans and occasionally the ancestors of humans on Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordAsteroid_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordAsteroid-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GernsbackYearsScienceFictionSolarSystem_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GernsbackYearsScienceFictionSolarSystem-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GernsbackYearsMotifAndThemeIndex_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GernsbackYearsMotifAndThemeIndex-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the invention of the <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic bomb">atomic bomb</a> in 1945, stories of this planetary destruction became increasingly common, encouraged by the advent of a plausible-seeming means of disintegration.<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordPlanet_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordPlanet-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several works of the 1950s used the idea to warn of the dangers of nuclear weapons.<sup id="cite_ref-SFEAsteroids_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEAsteroids-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlAsteroids_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlAsteroids-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TheZoneMomentosOfCreation_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheZoneMomentosOfCreation-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The concept has since largely been relegated to deliberately retro works.<sup id="cite_ref-WandererAmHimmelAsteroids_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WandererAmHimmelAsteroids-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col 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title="Nibiru (Babylonian astronomy)">Nibiru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planet_V" title="Planet V">Planet V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theia_(planet)" title="Theia (planet)">Theia (planet)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin" title="Zecharia Sitchin">Zecharia Sitchin</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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Kent State University Press. p. 539. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87338-604-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87338-604-3"><bdi>978-0-87338-604-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Science-Fiction+Solar+System&rft.btitle=Science-fiction%3A+The+Gernsback+Years+%3A+a+Complete+Coverage+of+the+Genre+Magazines+...+from+1926+Through+1936&rft.pages=539&rft.pub=Kent+State+University+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-87338-604-3&rft.aulast=Bleiler&rft.aufirst=Everett+Franklin&rft.au=Bleiler%2C+Richard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPbMdeizaCNcC%26pg%3DPA539&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhaeton+%28hypothetical+planet%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-StablefordAsteroid-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-StablefordAsteroid_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStableford2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Stableford" title="Brian Stableford">Stableford, Brian</a> (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uefwmdROKTAC&pg=PA40">"Asteroid"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction:_An_Encyclopedia" title="Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia">Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia</a></i>. Taylor & Francis. pp. 40–41. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-415-97460-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-415-97460-8"><bdi>978-0-415-97460-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Asteroid&rft.btitle=Science+Fact+and+Science+Fiction%3A+An+Encyclopedia&rft.pages=40-41&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-415-97460-8&rft.aulast=Stableford&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DuefwmdROKTAC%26pg%3DPA40&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhaeton+%28hypothetical+planet%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBleilerBleiler1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/E._F._Bleiler" title="E. F. Bleiler">Bleiler, Everett Franklin</a>; <a href="/wiki/Richard_Bleiler" title="Richard Bleiler">Bleiler, Richard</a> (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PbMdeizaCNcC&pg=PR17">"Introduction"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Science-fiction:_The_Gernsback_Years_:_a_Complete_Coverage_of_the_Genre_Magazines_..._from_1926_Through_1936" class="mw-redirect" title="Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years : a Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines ... from 1926 Through 1936">Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years : a Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines ... from 1926 Through 1936</a></i>. Kent State University Press. pp. xvii. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87338-604-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87338-604-3"><bdi>978-0-87338-604-3</bdi></a>. <q>The "science" in science-fiction of the Gernsback period was not wholly borrowed from the outside world. Some concepts were created on a mythical level. [...] Particularly interesting is the establishment of "Bodia" (according to one cosmology of the day, a former fifth planet whose destruction formed the asteroids) as the ultimate origin of mankind and possessor of a supercivilization.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Introduction&rft.btitle=Science-fiction%3A+The+Gernsback+Years+%3A+a+Complete+Coverage+of+the+Genre+Magazines+...+from+1926+Through+1936&rft.pages=xvii&rft.pub=Kent+State+University+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-87338-604-3&rft.aulast=Bleiler&rft.aufirst=Everett+Franklin&rft.au=Bleiler%2C+Richard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPbMdeizaCNcC%26pg%3DPR17&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhaeton+%28hypothetical+planet%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GernsbackYearsMotifAndThemeIndex-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GernsbackYearsMotifAndThemeIndex_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBleilerBleiler1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/E._F._Bleiler" title="E. F. Bleiler">Bleiler, Everett Franklin</a>; <a href="/wiki/Richard_Bleiler" title="Richard Bleiler">Bleiler, Richard</a> (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PbMdeizaCNcC&pg=PA627">"Motif and Theme Index"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Science-fiction:_The_Gernsback_Years_:_a_Complete_Coverage_of_the_Genre_Magazines_..._from_1926_Through_1936" class="mw-redirect" title="Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years : a Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines ... from 1926 Through 1936">Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years : a Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines ... from 1926 Through 1936</a></i>. Kent State University Press. pp. 627–628. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87338-604-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87338-604-3"><bdi>978-0-87338-604-3</bdi></a>. <q>Bode's Fifth Planet, "Bodia." (A hypothetical planet between Mars and Jupiter that broke up to form the asteroid belt. It is usually fictionally considered as Earth-like, with a human population.)</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Motif+and+Theme+Index&rft.btitle=Science-fiction%3A+The+Gernsback+Years+%3A+a+Complete+Coverage+of+the+Genre+Magazines+...+from+1926+Through+1936&rft.pages=627-628&rft.pub=Kent+State+University+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-87338-604-3&rft.aulast=Bleiler&rft.aufirst=Everett+Franklin&rft.au=Bleiler%2C+Richard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPbMdeizaCNcC%26pg%3DPA627&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhaeton+%28hypothetical+planet%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-StablefordPlanet-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-StablefordPlanet_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStableford2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Stableford" title="Brian Stableford">Stableford, Brian</a> (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uefwmdROKTAC&pg=PA375">"Planet"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction:_An_Encyclopedia" title="Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia">Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia</a></i>. Taylor & Francis. p. 375. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-415-97460-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-415-97460-8"><bdi>978-0-415-97460-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Planet&rft.btitle=Science+Fact+and+Science+Fiction%3A+An+Encyclopedia&rft.pages=375&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-415-97460-8&rft.aulast=Stableford&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DuefwmdROKTAC%26pg%3DPA375&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhaeton+%28hypothetical+planet%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-TheZoneMomentosOfCreation-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-TheZoneMomentosOfCreation_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHampton2000" class="citation magazine cs1">Hampton, Steven (Summer 2000). Lee, Tony (ed.). "Momentos of Creation: Asteroids & Comets in SF". The Planets Project: A Science Fictional Tour of the Solar System. <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Zone_(magazine)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Zone (magazine) (page does not exist)">The Zone</a></i>. No. 9. pp. 6–7. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1351-5217">1351-5217</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Zone&rft.atitle=Momentos+of+Creation%3A+Asteroids+%26+Comets+in+SF&rft.ssn=summer&rft.issue=9&rft.pages=6-7&rft.date=2000&rft.issn=1351-5217&rft.aulast=Hampton&rft.aufirst=Steven&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhaeton+%28hypothetical+planet%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WandererAmHimmelAsteroids-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WandererAmHimmelAsteroids_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCaryadRömerZingsem2014" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Caryad; Römer, Thomas; Zingsem, Vera (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=y_WJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA170">"Science vs. Fiction: der ganz andere Asteroidengürtel aus Roman und Film"</a> [Science vs. Fiction: The Entirely Different Asteroid Belt from Novel and Film]. <i>Wanderer am Himmel: Die Welt der Planeten in Astronomie und Mythologie</i> [<i>Wanderers in the Sky: The World of the Planets in Astronomy and Mythology</i>] (in German). Springer-Verlag. pp. 170–172. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-642-55343-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-642-55343-1"><bdi>978-3-642-55343-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Science+vs.+Fiction%3A+der+ganz+andere+Asteroideng%C3%BCrtel+aus+Roman+und+Film&rft.btitle=Wanderer+am+Himmel%3A+Die+Welt+der+Planeten+in+Astronomie+und+Mythologie&rft.pages=170-172&rft.pub=Springer-Verlag&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-3-642-55343-1&rft.au=Caryad&rft.au=R%C3%B6mer%2C+Thomas&rft.au=Zingsem%2C+Vera&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dy_WJBAAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA170&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhaeton+%28hypothetical+planet%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Olbers,_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Matthias">"Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. 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New York: Simon and Schuster.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Watermark%3A+The+Disaster+That+Changed+the+World+and+Humanity+12%2C000+Years+Ago&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Simon+and+Schuster&rft.date=2004&rft.aulast=Christy-Vitale&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhaeton+%28hypothetical+planet%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFColeCox1964" class="citation book cs1">Cole, Dandridge M.; Cox, Donald William (1964). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=C11AAQAAIAAJ"><i>Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids</i></a>. 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title="Pluto">Pluto</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Haumea" title="Haumea">Haumea</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quaoar" title="Quaoar">Quaoar</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Makemake" title="Makemake">Makemake</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gonggong_(dwarf_planet)" title="Gonggong (dwarf planet)">Gonggong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)" title="Eris (dwarf planet)">Eris</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sedna_(dwarf_planet)" title="Sedna (dwarf planet)">Sedna</a></i></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background:transparent;color:inherit;"><div style="padding:0px"><table class="navbox-columns-table" style="border-spacing: 0px; text-align:left;width:100%;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td class="navbox-list" style="padding:0px;width:50%;"><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Planets,dwarfs" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">Planets</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarfs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_planet" title="Terrestrial planet">Terrestrials</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_planet" title="Giant planet">Giants</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gas_giant" title="Gas giant">Gas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ice_giant" title="Ice giant">Ice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uranus" title="Uranus">Uranus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neptune" title="Neptune">Neptune</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">Dwarfs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orcus_(dwarf_planet)" title="Orcus (dwarf planet)">Orcus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haumea" title="Haumea">Haumea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quaoar" title="Quaoar">Quaoar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makemake" title="Makemake">Makemake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonggong_(dwarf_planet)" title="Gonggong (dwarf planet)">Gonggong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)" title="Eris (dwarf planet)">Eris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sedna_(dwarf_planet)" title="Sedna (dwarf planet)">Sedna</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">Moons</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Earth <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claimed_moons_of_Earth" title="Claimed moons of Earth">other near-Earth objects</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Mars" title="Moons of Mars">Mars</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phobos_(moon)" title="Phobos (moon)">Phobos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deimos_(moon)" title="Deimos (moon)">Deimos</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter" title="Moons of Jupiter">Jupiter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)" title="Ganymede (moon)">Ganymede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callisto_(moon)" title="Callisto (moon)">Callisto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter#List" title="Moons of Jupiter">all 95</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn" title="Moons of Saturn">Saturn</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Titan_(moon)" title="Titan (moon)">Titan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhea_(moon)" title="Rhea (moon)">Rhea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iapetus_(moon)" title="Iapetus (moon)">Iapetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dione_(moon)" title="Dione (moon)">Dione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tethys_(moon)" title="Tethys (moon)">Tethys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enceladus" title="Enceladus">Enceladus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mimas" title="Mimas">Mimas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperion_(moon)" title="Hyperion (moon)">Hyperion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoebe_(moon)" title="Phoebe (moon)">Phoebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn#List" title="Moons of Saturn">all 146</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus" title="Moons of Uranus">Uranus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Titania_(moon)" title="Titania (moon)">Titania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oberon_(moon)" title="Oberon (moon)">Oberon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umbriel" title="Umbriel">Umbriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariel_(moon)" title="Ariel (moon)">Ariel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miranda_(moon)" title="Miranda (moon)">Miranda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus#List" title="Moons of Uranus">all 28</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Neptune" title="Moons of Neptune">Neptune</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Triton_(moon)" title="Triton (moon)">Triton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proteus_(moon)" title="Proteus (moon)">Proteus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereid_(moon)" title="Nereid (moon)">Nereid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Neptune#List" title="Moons of Neptune">all 16</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orcus_(dwarf_planet)" title="Orcus (dwarf planet)">Orcus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vanth_(moon)" title="Vanth (moon)">Vanth</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Pluto" title="Moons of Pluto">Pluto</a> <ul><li><a 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title="List of Uranus-crossing minor planets">Uranus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Neptune-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Neptune-crossing minor planets">Neptune</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trojan_(celestial_body)" title="Trojan (celestial body)">Trojans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_ND15" title="2013 ND15">Venus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_trojan" title="Earth trojan">Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_trojan" title="Mars trojan">Mars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_trojan" title="Jupiter trojan">Jupiter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jupiter_trojans_(Trojan_camp)" title="List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp)">Trojan camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jupiter_trojans_(Greek_camp)" title="List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp)">Greek camp</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Co-orbital_configuration#Trojan_moons" title="Co-orbital configuration">Saturn Moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranus_trojans" title="Uranus 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title="Planet Nine">Planet Nine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planet_V" title="Planet V">Planet V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune#Planet_X" title="Planets beyond Neptune">Planet X</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subsatellite" title="Subsatellite">Subsatellites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theia_(planet)" title="Theia (planet)">Theia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyche_(hypothetical_planet)" title="Tyche (hypothetical planet)">Tyche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)" title="Vulcan (hypothetical planet)">Vulcan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vulcanoid" title="Vulcanoid">Vulcanoids</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Space_exploration" title="Space exploration">Exploration</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Outline_of_space_exploration" title="Outline of space exploration">outline</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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title="Human spaceflight">Human spaceflight</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Space_station" title="Space station">space stations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_crewed_spacecraft" title="List of crewed spacecraft">list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_spaceflight_programs" title="Human spaceflight programs">programs</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Mercury" title="Exploration of Mercury">Mercury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Observations_and_explorations_of_Venus" title="Observations and explorations of Venus">Venus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon" title="Exploration of the Moon">Moon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_resources" title="Lunar resources">mining</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars" title="Exploration of Mars">Mars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)#Exploration" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid#Exploration" title="Asteroid">Asteroids</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_mining" title="Asteroid mining">mining</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_missions_to_comets" title="List of missions to comets">Comets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Jupiter" title="Exploration of Jupiter">Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Saturn" title="Exploration of Saturn">Saturn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Uranus" title="Exploration of Uranus">Uranus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Neptune" title="Exploration of Neptune">Neptune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Pluto" title="Exploration of Pluto">Pluto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_space_exploration" title="Deep space exploration">Deep space</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System" title="Formation and evolution of the Solar System">Formation,<br />evolution</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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href="/wiki/Detached_object" title="Detached object">Detached object</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exoplanetary_Circumstellar_Environments_and_Disk_Explorer" title="Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer">EXCEDE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exozodiacal_dust" title="Exozodiacal dust">Exozodiacal dust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_materials" title="Extraterrestrial materials">Extraterrestrial materials</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_sample_curation" title="Extraterrestrial sample curation">Sample curation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sample-return_mission" title="Sample-return mission">Sample-return mission</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frost_line_(astrophysics)" title="Frost line (astrophysics)">Frost/Ice/Snow line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis" title="Giant-impact hypothesis">Giant-impact hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravitational_collapse" title="Gravitational collapse">Gravitational collapse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hills_cloud" title="Hills cloud">Hills cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill_sphere" title="Hill sphere">Hill sphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interplanetary_dust_cloud" title="Interplanetary dust cloud">Interplanetary dust cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interplanetary_medium" title="Interplanetary medium">Interplanetary medium/space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interstellar_cloud" title="Interstellar cloud">Interstellar cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interstellar_medium" title="Interstellar medium">Interstellar medium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outer_space#Interstellar_space" title="Outer space">Interstellar space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuiper_belt" title="Kuiper belt">Kuiper belt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuiper_cliff" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuiper cliff">Kuiper cliff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molecular_cloud" title="Molecular cloud">Molecular cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebular_hypothesis" title="Nebular hypothesis">Nebular 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