Planet (disambiguation)

Planet (disambiguation)

A planet, in astronomy, is one of a class of celestial bodies that orbit stars. (A dwarf planet is a similar, but officially mutually exclusive, class of body.)

Planet may also refer to:
* Planets in astrology, another concept referring to celestial bodies but as used in prophecy

As an acronym

* Professional Landcare Network, a US organisation for lawn care, landscape architecture and related professionals
* Probing Lensing Anomalies Network, a network of optical astronomical telescopes used for photometry
* Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique, a barcoding system for sorting mail used by the US Postal Service

Arts and entertainment

*"Planet Stories", science fiction magazine published from 1939-1955
*"Planet Magazine", on-line science fiction magazine
* "Planète", a French magazine of the fantastic realism literary movement
* The "Daily Planet", a fictional newspaper in the Superman universe
* Planet killer, in science fiction, an entity designed to destroy a planet

Film

* "The Planets" (TV series), 1999 BBC TV miniseries

Music

* "The Planets", a suite of orchestral music by Gustav Holst
* Digable Planets, a US alt hip-hop band
* The Planet Smashers, a Canadian ska band
* "Planets" (album) by Adema
* "Out of the Silent Planet" (album) by King's X
* "Out of the Silent Planet" (song) from Iron Maiden's "Brave New World" album
* "Planet" (song) from "Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week!" by Icelandic band, The Sugarcubes
* One of several record labels:
** Planet Dog
** Planet Laz
** Planet Mu
** Planet Pimp Records

Video Games

* VGA Planets, a turn-based PC strategy game
* the fictional planet ("Chiron" or "Planet") in the "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri" video game

Computing

* Planet (software), a software package for collecting posts from RSS feeds and republishing them on a website
* An Aggregator website that aggregates posts from different blogs using the aforementioned or similar software
* Planet Online, a UK Internet service provider
* Pages of the GameSpy network
* PLANET, the first Internet teleconference software

Transport

* Planet (locomotive), an early British railway locomotive
* 2-2-0, a class of railway locomotives including the latter
* Planet Airways, a US airline
* Three Japanese unmanned spacecraft— the Suisei probe ("PLANET-A"), Nozomi ("PLANET-B") and PLANET-C

ee also

* Planetary


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