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The naked eye planets [See Link] are the five planets of our solar system that can be discerned with the naked eye without much difficulty. They are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

The name planet comes from Greek, meaning "wanderer", as ancient astronomers saw how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars. They called these objects asteres planetai, or wandering stars.

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