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Planet Name Game

Updated: September 12, 2008

Find out why Mars is Mars, and see if you can guess how other planets in our solar system got their names.

 
Identify each planet's name origin:

Where does Earth gets its name?

 Greek word meaning on the ground
 The Roman god of nature
 Latin word for space
 
 

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