What was the first planet?

Question

I was just looking one day at the stars and thought what was the 1st planet in the sky?

Thankz i really want to ge the question of my chest!

Answer 1

Usually, the first planet we see is Venus, also known as the morning or evening star.

Answer 2

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http://www.neighborsgo.com/boatman1    and click on the video "Fly through the Orion Nebula"--------

Answer 3

Are you asking for the identity of the first planet that was discovered?

If so, the answer is lost to antiquity. Five planets are visible to the naked eye and, thus, are known to the ancients. These five are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Do you know what the "naked eye" is?

Answer 4

good question keep it up might be a scientist.

mercury here is some info for you on this planet

Mercury (pronounced [ˈmɝkjʊəri] (help·info)) is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system (since Pluto was re-labelled as a dwarf planet), orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. Mercury is bright when viewed from Earth, ranging from −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, but is not easily seen as its greatest angular separation from the Sun (greatest elongation) is only 28.3°: It can only be seen in morning and evening twilight. Comparatively little is known about it; the first of two spacecraft to approach Mercury was Mariner 10 from 1974 to 1975, which mapped only about 45% of the planet’s surface.The second was the MESSENGER spacecraft, which mapped another 30% of the planet during its flyby of January 14, 2008. MESSENGER will make two more passes by Mercury, followed by orbital insertion in 2011, and will survey and map the entire planet.

Physically, Mercury is similar in appearance to the Moon. It is heavily cratered, has no natural satellites and no substantial atmosphere. It has a large iron core, which generates a magnetic field about 1% as strong as that of the Earth. It is an exceptionally dense planet due to the large size of its core. The surface temperatures on Mercury range from about 90 to 700 K (-183 ºC to 427 ºC),with the subsolar point being the hottest and the bottoms of craters near the poles being the coldest.

Recorded observations of Mercury date back to at least the first millennium BC. Before the 4th century BC, Greek astronomers believed the planet to be two separate objects: one visible only at sunrise, which they called Apollo; the other visible only at sunset, which they called Hermes. The English name for the planet comes from the Romans, who named it after the Roman god Mercury, which they equated with the Greek Hermes. The astronomical symbol for Mercury is a stylized version of Hermes' caduceus

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Answer 5

There is no "first planet."  Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn have always been easily visible to all ancient civilizations.

Answer 6

The first planet would have existed billions of years ago around a star which also no longer exists, and was likely nowhere near our area of the universe.  The universe is very old and much has happened even before our sun and the earth formed.

Answer 7

I think you're asking what the first planet to be created was, rather than the closest planet to the Sun?

All the planets in our solar system were created at about the same time. When a star is young, it has a cloud of dust around it, which gathers into a disc shape, and then into planets orbiting the star. So, you can't say that this planet was created before that one, but you can say that the planets in our solar system formed over 4 1/2 billion years ago.

Some other stars are much older than our Sun, so they might have planets that were created much longer ago as well.

Scientists have discovered planets around other stars, but we can only guess that the age of the planets is shorter than the age of the star that it orbits.