Planet (disambiguation)

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

Planet may also refer to:

• Planets in astrology, another concept referring to celestial bodies but as used in prophecy

Contents 1 As an acronym 2 Arts and entertainment 2.1 Music 2.2 Video Games 3 Computing 4 Transport 5 See also

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Planetary