Why do scientists call planets gods?

The names of the planets came from greek gods.

The Romans didn't name any planets. Planets were named after Roman Gods by modern scientists and astronomers. These include Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto. The Romans didn't even have the technology to discover even half the planets named after their Gods.

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No gods are named after planets. But the planets are named after Roman gods.

Planets were named after the Roman gods.

The planets are named after the Roman Gods.

Scientist did not name Mercury, Roman/ Greek Gods did. They named it Mercury because it was the fastest moving planet out of all Planets.

only the Romans did. it's a little confusing because it's the same gods, just different names. they named the planets after gods as a way of honoring the gods. different gods got different planets for different reasons. one example is the planet mars. mars was the roman name for ares, the greek god of war. mars is a red planet, like the blood that is spilled in war. that is why it was called that…

All planets are named after Roman Gods

No, planets were named for Greek and Roman gods.

The planets are named after the Gods.

Planets are named after ancient mythalogical gods, Uranus is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky.

Some Planets are named after gods .so poseidon says this is a quest for halima and kowsar to find why gods are named after planets. quick

The planets are named after the Roman counterparts of the Greek gods.

I think the Romans named the planets after their gods.

The gods in Greek mythology are not tied to the planets. The Greek gods were renamed by the Romans and after the discovery of different planets, these such planets were named after these "Roman God's" Ex: Roman-Pluto Greek-Hades

Answer Because that time they only thought of god and nobody else that was the greek time, so the planets are named after a god!!!!! The Romans and Greeks associated planets with certain gods for Astrological purposes. For a long time scientists used Latin in formal writings so kept the names the Romans used for the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When Neptune, Uranus and Pluto were discovered the names were chosen just…

Scientists measure the weigts of planets by their gravitational force or by its gravity.

The planet Uranus is named for the Greek god of the sky. This was to follow the history of naming planets for Roman and Greek gods.

Mars Jupiter venus Pluto mercuray Answer 2: The planets in our solar system are named after Roman gods.

the planets were named after roman gods

They are gas planets

They named the planets after some Greek gods

They named the planets after their gods.

planets are named after the roman names for gods ex. Jupiter is the roman name for Zeus the god of gods

they studied about them or they went to the space and no about the planets

Studying the earth helps scientists to understand other planets since the earth is part of the solar system. Scientists use the features of the earth to compare them with what other planets hold.

There are 9 planets all together, although, in 2006 loads of scientists had a meeting and decided to call the 9th planet(pluto) a dwarf planet.

the moon is the sattellite which orbits our planet which scientists call the moon.7 A moon is the same thing but orbiting other planets

Some of the planets were named after greek or roman gods.

Indeed. They were named after Roman and Greek gods.

what molecule do scientists look for when they are investigsating the possibility of life on other planets

Most of the planets are named after Greek and/or Roman gods.

They were named after the Roman gods. and the greek and Anglo saxson gods

All but Earth were named after gods.

Mars was named after the Roman god of war, actually most of the planets in our solar system are named after Roman gods/goddesses, the Greeks originally named the planets and the Romans copied them, that's why most of the planets are Roman gods instead of Greek gods.

The Voyager space probe provides scientists with information on gaseous giant planets.

The difference is that the 4 inner planets are solid. The first 2 outer planets are completely made up of gas and the last 2 planets, while also made up of gas, are mostly frozen, so scientists call them ice giants. Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

some things are interesting to some people but not to others but in my opinion Greeks believed there were monsters, and gods that lived on mount Olympus, many English words come from 1 or more greek words,greek gods are where scientists get the name for planets like venus i think is aphrodite.:)

The planets of the solar system are named after the Roman and Greek gods.

You have that backwards. The planets were named for the gods.

All planets in our solar system, with the exception of earth.

Named after the Roman Gods (basically Greek Gods with different names)

Scientists call it refraction.

Planetology is the branch of astronomy in which planetologists study the planets and their moons.

More then the 8 Major Planets we've discovered.

we call huge planets huge planets

Most scientists think there is probably life on other planets. They have not yet been able to do any direct tests to determine if there is.

All the planets visible to the naked eye have been associated with the gods since ancient times. After the invention of the telescope, when scientists began to find new planets they followed a tradition of also naming them after the gods. When Pluto was discovered, it was given the status of a planet, although it has since been reclassified as a dwarf planet. Since Pluto is so distant from the sun, it is a dark…