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Venus was named after the roman goddess of love and beauty.
How named the planets. The largest and most massive of the planets was named zeus by the greeks and jupiter by the romans. Two other planets uranus and neptune were discovered after the telescope was invented in the early 1600s. Initially the names given to minor planets followed the same pattern as the other planets. Deimos named for one of mars companions.
With the discovery in 1898 of the first body found to cross the orbit of mars a different choice was deemed appropriate and 433 eros was chosen. The actual process of naming new planets however is a bit more involved. The romans named the brightest planet venus for their goddess of love and beauty. Names from greek or roman myths with a preference for female names.
However an exception was made for uranus since the name is the only one that is based purely on greek mythology. Eventually we arrived at a general consensus that planets must be named after roman gods and their moons after greek gods that were intimately linked to the greek god equivalents of the roman gods after which the planet is named. However the planet was eventually named mars after the roman god of war for the same reasons. The other planets were not discovered until much later after telescopes were invented.
Mercury was named after the roman god of travel. The inner four planets closest to the sun mercury venus earth and mars are often called the terrestrial planets because their surfaces are rocky pluto also has a rocky. Shortly after the announcement of the trappist 1 system nasa crowdsourced its twitter followers for possible planet names. Phobos named for one of the horses that drew mars chariot.
