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Re: OT: Corpses, etc. (was: Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)))

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, November 10, 2003, 7:39
Quoting Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>:

> They also worship whichever of the planets are visible to the naked > eye. (Can anyone tell me which those are? I've seen Mars and Venus > myself, but I don't know if any others are visible without a > telescope.)
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. If you've got good eyes and weather, it should be possible to glimpse Uranus, but it's so faint and moves so slowly against the stellar background that no-one recognized it as a planet before telescopes came around. Andreas