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- LETTERS, Page 4Why Not Earth?
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- TIME does not capitalize the name of the planet earth, and
- some readers are curious about the reason, since we do
- capitalize Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto and so on. The
- explanation: following grammatical rules for capitalizing proper
- names, we uppercase those celestial bodies named after
- mythological gods. Inasmuch as the earth, the moon and the sun
- have no mythical forebears, they remain lowercase.
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