superior planet

For superior planets the planet would typically move through in the night sky slower than the stars.

The superior planets are much more complex and their mechanisms require significant extra hardware.

Opposition occurs only in superior planets (see the diagram).

The superior planets, orbiting outside the Earth's orbit, do not exhibit the full range of phases.

The superior planet mechanisms differ from Wright's but perform the same function using fewer gears.

It is applied especially to the apparent position of a superior planet, or of the Moon at first and last quarters.

This is in contrast to so-called superior planets, such as Mars, that appeared to move independently of the Sun.

Superior planets, dwarf planets and asteroids undergo a different cycle.

Superior planets such as Mars and Jupiter usually have a high phase angle, so little of the shadowed side is visible.

The superior planets cover shorter ranges.

In other words, as seen from an observer on the superior planet at opposition, the Earth appears at inferior conjunction with the Sun.

At inferior conjunction, the superior planet is "in opposition" to the Sun as seen from the inferior planet (see the diagram).

Superior planet is an archaic term that is sometimes used to refer to planets that orbit further from the Sun than the Earth, such as Saturn.

As with the trine and the sextile, in the square, it is usually the outer or superior planet that has an effect on the inner or inferior one.

All superior planets are most easily visible at their oppositions because they are near their closest approach to Earth and are also above the horizon all night.

The term 'outer planet' should not be confused with 'superior planet', which designates planets outside Earth's orbit (the outer planets and Mars).

Their model simulates the solar anomaly, inferior planets and superior planets and indicates their positions on the front face along with the date and lunar pointers.

"Superior planet" is used in reference to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, (and later additions Uranus and Neptune), which are farther from the Sun than the Earth is.

This slump may have begun when Derek Jeter looked like an alien come down from some superior planet, to show the Mets just how far away they were from world championship status.

Opposition is defined as the moment when the apparent ecliptic longitudes of the superior planet and the Sun differ by 180 , which ignores the fact that the planet is outside the plane of the Earth's orbit.

At a last-minute meeting aboard the spacecraft I and my assistants were able to persuade the Visitors to grant President Eisenhower additional time to get the affairs of this nation organized in accordance with the dictates laid down by the superior planets.

The superior planet gears are mounted on a sub-plate using metal bridges, which is in turn located in front of the inferior systems and attached to the wooden frame, the front dial plate is fixed on top of this.

Gaurico has been identified by the historian Paola Zambelli as the author of an anonymous 1512 pamphlet that predicted a university deluge to take place in 1524 as a result of a conjunction of the superior planets in the watery sign of Pisces.

Each superior planet system is mounted on a separate 223 toothed main gear (this has the same tooth count as b1) which is mounted on a rectangular plate with wooden spacer blocks on each short end, these are then attached to the mechanism as a whole.

In his Davis Cup debut this spring, Safin took Jim Courier to five sets before losing the deciding match, and a month later he defeated Agassi and Gustavo Kuerten at the French Open, but Safin described Sampras as an opponent from a superior planet.