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Significats de counter-earth en anglès

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планета глория
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antitierra
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antichton

Hypothetical planet on the other side of the Sun from Earth.

        antichton
        Ús de counter-earth en anglès
        1
        It was, perhaps, largely to account for such eclipses that the counter-earth was invented.
        A History of Science — Volume 1
        2
        Some of the Pythagoreans say, that the splendor arises from the earth, its obstruction from the Antichthon (or counter-earth).
        Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
        3
        Their count of the heavenly bodies, including the sphere of the fixed stars, seemed to show nine, and the counter-earth supplied the missing body.
        A History of Science — Volume 1