Timeline for answer to When did we know the color/appearance of all the planets in our solar system? by Mark Olson
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| Jul 5, 2018 at 19:16 | comment | added | MAGolding | @Mark Olsen Astrologers through the ages say Mercury is variable, brown, or multicolored; Venus white, blue, or green; Mars red; Jupiter orange, blue, green, or blue-purple, and Saturn grey, black, or black-brown. cura.free.fr/22plcome.html Mercury is actually grey; Venus pale yellow; Mars reddish brown; Jupiter banded orange and white; Saturn pale gold, Uranus & Neptune pale blue; Pluto light brown. curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/58-our-solar-system/… So ancient people were wrong. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 17:20 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Mark C. Wallace: Wrong! Pluto certainly is a planet, despite the machinations of one person (Marsden) holding a long-term grudge. And of course the question really isn't answered, because there are arguably planets like Eris & Quaoar that we know little about, and probably others yet undiscovered. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 14:23 | comment | added | SJuan76 | @MarkC.Wallace that is far from settled(FWIW, I have no further interest in the final result). | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 14:00 | comment | added | Mark Olson | That's sacrilege! | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:59 | comment | added | MCW♦ | Of course since Pluto isn't a planet, 2015 is the wrong end date... | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:56 | history | answered | Mark Olson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |