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LETTERS, Page 4Why Not Earth?
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.