counter-Earth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A hypothetical planet sharing an orbit with the earth, but on the opposite side of the sun.

   “To the same period may perhaps belong the theory that the comet is a separate planet; this eighth planet might serve, when the counter-earth had been discarded, to maintain the number ten in regard to the heavenly bodies.”

2. isim Alternative form of counter-earth.

   “Possibly to explain eclipses, and possibly to achieve for the astral world the perfection of the number Ten, Philolaus imagined that a dark Counter-Earth existed, invisible to the Earth.”