Collocations withplanet
These are words often used in combination withplanet.
Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.
alien planet
It is the first serial to be set on an alien planet.
From
Wikipedia
entire planet
The sums are calculated for the northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere and the entire planet (global).
From theCambridge English Corpus
extrasolar planet
Chapter 9 focusses on technology, introducing direct methods of extrasolar planet detection through telescopy and interferometry.
From theCambridge English Corpus
giant planet
They do not model the preceding migration of the giant planet and the disc material it passes through is assumed to be lost.
From theCambridge English Corpus
inner planet
Further analysis showed that the transit length of the inner planet is not changing, a situation which rules out most possible configurations for this system.
From
Wikipedia
outer planet
In a departure from the previous book, there is no discussion of icy volcanism (cryovolcanism) on other outer planet satellites.
From theCambridge English Corpus
planet earth
We must remember that in speaking of the history of ' the world ', we are not referring to the planet earth, or even to the entire physical universe.
From theCambridge English Corpus
rocky planet
The asteroid may be part of the debris from what might once have been a rocky planet with either ice or oceans.
From
Wikipedia
terrestrial planet
Atmospheric loss processes have played a major role in the evolution and habitability of the terrestrial planet atmospheres in our solar system.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.