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unusual facts about Planet Venus



A Supplement to the Journey to the West

The Jade Emperor of heaven initially wishes to punish Sima for his blasphemy, but the embodiment of the Planet Venus talks him into letting the scholar act as the King of Hell for twelve hours to test his worth.


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Agniswarar Temple, Kanjanur

Kanjanur is one of the nine Navagraha sthalas located in the Cauvery Delta region dedicated to planet Venus, called Sukra.

Ashen

Ashen light, a subtle glow that is seen from the night side of the planet Venus.

Aurvandil

Guesses as to the identity of this star have included the polestar, the planet Venus, Sirius and the star Rigel which forms the toe of the constellation Orion, though if Aurvandil is to be identified with the constellation Orion one would expect to find Aurvandil himself being translated into the sky, not just his toe.

Beelzebub

In the Testament of Solomon, Beelzebul (not Beelzebub) appears as prince of the demons and says (6.2) that he was formerly a leading heavenly angel who was (6.7) associated with the star Hesperus (which is the normal Greek name for the planet Venus (Αφροδíτη) as evening star).

Chichen Itza

This Platform of Venus is dedicated to the planet Venus.

Çoban Yıldızı

(In Turkish, Çoban Yıldızı means "shepherd's star" and it actually refers to the planet Venus.)

Codename: Sailor V

He calls her "Sailor Venus" and tells her she has a mission to protect Earth in the name of her guardian planet Venus.

Cosmic King

Cosmic King was born Laevar Bolto on the planet Venus.

Doctor Sivana

Laughed out of society by people who called his inventions impractical and his science a fake, Sivana took his family to the planet Venus in a spaceship he had invented, where he stayed until his children were grown, and Earth not as backward as when he left it; since his children were adults by 1940, his departure from Earth would implicitly have been the late 1910s or early 1920s.

Eucla, Western Australia

The name Eucla is believed to originate from an Aboriginal word "Yinculyer" which one source gives as referring to the rising of the planet Venus.

Eugène Lafont

The next year, a high level international scientific expedition visited Calcutta on its way to the nearby town of Midnapore in order to observe a very rare astronomical phenomenon: the passage of planet Venus before the sun.

Face of the Screaming Werewolf

Published in 2006 by Piers Anthony's Random House POD imprint, Xlibris, Face of the Screaming Werewolf by Ken Gage recycled imagery and dialogue from the film to tell a strange story involving Satan's war in heaven, robots, sadomasochistic vampires, the nature of elitism, and aliens (mostly from the planet Venus).

First Babylonian Dynasty

There are further difficulties: the 21 years span of the detailed observations of the planet Venus may or may not coincide with the reign of this king, because his name is not mentioned, only the Year of the Golden Throne.

Frances Brooke

In 1985, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature honoured Frances Moore Brooke by naming a crater after her on the surface of the planet Venus.

Phil Brogan

To test Brogan’s science knowledge, Sawyer pointed out a bright star on the horizon and asked its name, Brogan replied that it was the planet Venus.

Reitia

Reitia Chasma, a geological feature on the planet Venus, is named after Reitia.

Shaohao

Legend says that his mother, a weaver goddess, was a beautiful fairy named Huange who fell in love with the planet Venus while drifting along the Milky Way.

Sigrid Undset

A crater on the planet Venus was named after her (Latitude 51.7°, Longitude 60.8°, Diameter 20 km).

The Evening and the Morning Star

Additionally, the planet Venus is given the name "Evening Star" when it appears in the west after sunset and "Morning Star" when it appears in the east before sunrise.

Theory of descriptions

For example, if the morning star and the evening star are the same planet in the sky (indeed, they are both the planet Venus), how is it that someone can think that the morning star rises in the morning but the evening star does not?

Typhoon Saomai

The name "Saomai" was submitted by Vietnam, and is from the Vietnamese word for "morning star" (sao Mai), a reference to the planet Venus.

Vladimir Kotelnikov

In 1961, he oversaw one of the first efforts to probe the planet Venus with radar.