“Several of the elements in the periodic table are named after the planets or other bodies of the solar system. For example, Cerium is named for the asteroid Ceres, and Helium comes from Helios, which is Greek for the Sun.” [source]
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From wikipedia.org “The term “dwarf planet” was adopted in 2006 as part of a three-way classification of bodies orbiting the Sun. Objects that are large enough to have cleared the neighbourhood of their orbit are defined as “planets”, while those which are too small to be in hydrostatic equilibrium are defined as “small solar system [...]
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