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the only planet not named after a god, and the only one throwing parties
means The planet we live on, the third from the sun; also the soil beneath our feet or the ground itself.
from From Old English 'eorþe,' meaning the ground, soil, or dry land — the world under your boots. It has solid Germanic cousins (Old Norse 'jörð,' German 'Erde,' Dutch 'aarde'), all tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root for the ground. Notice the humble core: while the other planets got named for Roman gods, ours was simply named for the dirt — the place we stand, dig, and bury our dead. Only later did 'earth' swell from soil to whole globe.
- core heat
- inner core matches the sun's surface temperature
- slowing spin
- days grow longer by milliseconds each century
- not round
- bulges at the equator like a spinning water balloon
- magnetic flip
- poles have reversed hundreds of times in history
- deep oceans
- more of its floor is mapped from Mars than seen