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Pluto , after the Roman god of the underworld .
Pluto is the Roman equivalent of Hades, and was created afterwards. Pluto the planet, was named after Pluto the Roman god. Not hades the Greek god.
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Pluto.
The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also called to as the Red Planet because of its reddish appearance as seen from Earth.
The dwarf planet, Pluto, was named for the Greek God of the underworld.
Pluto , after the Roman god of the underworld .
The dwarf planet Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld.
Pluto is the Roman equivalent of Hades, and was created afterwards. Pluto the planet, was named after Pluto the Roman god. Not hades the Greek god.
The anagram is Pluto, a dwarf planet named for the Roman god of the underworld.
god of the underworld
Plutonic rocks are named after Pluto, the ancient Roman god of the underworld
it is named after the (ancient) Roman god of the underworld
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The planet Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld, Hades. The planet was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
There is no planet named after the Greek god of war.There is however a planet named after the Roman god of war, which is Mars.The Greek god of war is Ares. He does not currently have a planet named after him.
The name "Pluto" was proposed by Venetia Burney (later Venetia Phair), an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England. Venetia was interested in classical mythology as well as astronomy, and considered the name, one of the alternate names of Hades, the Greek god of the Underworld, appropriate for such a presumably dark and cold world