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protoVenus en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of proto-Venus
    • For this reason, terms such as protoEarth, protoVenus etc. have no validity until there is a body whose mass is more than half that of the eventual planet. 2018, David A. Rothery, Neil McBride, Iain Gilmour, An Introduction to the Solar System, page 312:
    • If Mercury has once been a satellit of Venus, the falling wind could have swept away so much of protoVenus that it lost gravitational control, and Mercury became a planet. 1981, Fire of Life: The Smithsonian Book of the Sun, page 70:
    • The major angular momentum was initially in the orbiting of the massive inner planets: protoMercury, protoVenus, and protoEarth. 2012, Robert J. Tuttle, The Fourth Source: Effects of Natural Nuclear Reactors, page 101: