h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just wondering what they might be then

Mercury, Venus, (Earth -if that's included), Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Surely Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were discovered far too recently to be included in the *traditional* seven planets.

The seven planets just sounds a bit too contrived for my liking I'm afraid.

Top article though A mere tiny little quibble above really

Orcus

The ancients considered the sun and moon to be planets too--'planet' means 'wanderer'

Although the seven planets may "sound too contrived" for your liking, Orcus, it is correct. The traditional seven planets, as Amy points out, are:

Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.

No, the earth isn't included. The seven planets are those that the ancients could see when they looked up into the sky from the earth.
the moon is the nearest, then Mercury,Venus,Sun,Mars,Jupiter,Saturn
Of course there are more, but the point is these are the ones visible with the naked eye.

I believe my question was perfectly adequately answered in post 2.

The article also seems to have been amended from the sentence that initially confused me. I hadn't considered that the ancients might have regarded the Sun and Moon as planets.

I suspect the work of a Curator

Woo hoo, I gave a perfectly adequate answer

Sorry for not acknowledging it before

Must have slipped down my conversations list too fast.

I'd sorta figured I'd been helpful, since the thread ended so quickly