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In 1610, when Galileo turned his newly constructed Telescope (as powerful as today's binoculars) towards Saturn, he was mystified when he noticed "Ears" on Saturn's "face".
What he was seeing, of course, were Saturn's rings, but nobody ever having seen rings around a planet before, and not having good enough telescopes for at least 50 more years, he simply could not comprehend what he was looking at.
He (only slightly) more rationally decided that the lobes were an illusion - that Saturn had two huge moons orbiting it (he had recently discovered Jupiter's four big moons). However, 2 years later, as Saturn turned so that Earth was edge on to the rings, they vanished from view. The rings are exquisitely thin compared with their huge diameter. He thought Saturn had "swallowed" his children.
The rings returned, of course, which baffled him further. Poor Galileo. He went to his grave thinking Saturn was a "crazy planet"
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Which planet has ears?
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Which planet is called glossy planet?
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Which planet has ears?
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Which planet did Galileo think might have ears?
It was Saturn, because he thought Saturn's rings looked like ears.
Which planet was first seen by Galileo in 1610. He described it as the planet with ears?
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A rabbit with small ears has small ears and a rabbit with big ears has big ears.
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A tuner! A pitch pipe. Your ears Planet waves has this tuner called the SOS tuner which helps you tune using 2 small red LED's
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The Ears Are Little Cute Ears??????
