Counter-earth
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Counter-earth is a noun meaning A hypothetical planet sharing an orbit with the earth, but on the opposite side of the sun.
Meaning
A hypothetical planet sharing an orbit with the earth, but on the opposite side of the sun.
Example Sentences
To the same period may perhaps belong the theory that the comet is a separate planet; this eighth planet might serve, when the counter-earth had been discarded, to maintain the number ten in regard to the heavenly bodies.
The report of Aristotle and Philip of Opus, that the higher frequency of lunar than of solar eclipses was explained by the presence of the counter-earth, and perhaps also other earth-like bodies in space, takes us into a similar context.
The interposition of the counter-earth between the sun and the moon is the cause of their eclipses. And just as our earth has a counter-earth, each planet has a counter-planet, a planetary companion (as Bruno would say in his later works), which revolves with the other one on the same circle but at the opposite end of its diameter.
Word Forms
- counterearth
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include counterearth, antipodes, antimoon, earth, antiscion, antiplanet.
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