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planets question.....?
What was the first planet that was discovered?
Who and when?
(beside earth)
2 Answers
- DLMLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, all being easy to spot naked eye objects have been known since ancient times. There is no way to know which human anscetor first looked up at whichever one of these first, and noticed that it "wandered" amongst the seemingly "Fixed (relative to each other)" background stars.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The planets Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn were all known to ancient people. So the first planet discovered that was not known and observed since ancient times was Uranus, discovered in 1781 by William Herschel.
