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Superior planets

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superior planet

–noun Astronomy.
any of the six planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.


Origin:
1575–85; i.e., superior in distance from the sun
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