Planet

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A planet, in astronomy, is one of a class of celestial bodies that orbit stars. (A dwarf planet is a similar, but officially mutually exclusive, class of body.)

Planet or Planets may also refer to:

• Planets in astrology, another concept referring to celestial bodies but as used in prophecy

As an acronym

• Professional Landcare Network, a US organization for lawn care, landscape architecture and related professionals
• Probing Lensing Anomalies Network, a network of optical astronomical telescopes used for photometry
• Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique, a barcoding system for sorting mail used by the US Postal Service

Computing

• Planet (software), software for collecting posts from RSS feeds and republishing them on a website
• Planet Network, network of video game-related websites operated by GameSpy
• Planet Online, UK Internet service provider
• The Planet Internet Services, large dedicated hosting service provider

Magazines and newspapers

• Planet (magazine), a Welsh cultural and political quarterly
• Planet Magazine, on-line science fiction magazine
• Planet PC, a British computer gaming magazine
• Planet Stories, science fiction magazine published from 1939-1955
• Planète, a French magazine of the fantastic realism literary movement
• The Daily Planet, a fictional newspaper in the Superman universe

Music

• The Planets, a suite of orchestral music by Gustav Holst
• The Planets (band), a classical music band formed by Mike Batt
• Planets (album), by Adema
• "Planets" (EP), a hit song by the Australian pop-rock band Short Stack
• "Planet", a song from the album Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! by The Sugarcubes
• Planet, a series of EPs by Basement Jaxx

Transport

• Planet (locomotive), an early British railway locomotive
• 2-2-0, a class of railway locomotives including the latter
• Planet Airways, a US airline

• The PLANET series of Japanese unmanned spacecraft:
  • PLANET-A, alternative name for Suisei (probe)
  • PLANET-B, alternative name for Nozomi (probe)
  • PLANET-C, alternative name for Akatsuki (probe)

Entertainment

• The Planets (TV series), 1999 BBC TV miniseries
• VGA Planets, a turn-based PC strategy game

Retail

• Planet, a Jacques Vert Plc Clothing Brand

See also

• Planetary (disambiguation)

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