Can also add that Ty Tuesday - Norwegian: "tirsdag" or "tysdag" was the god of war. Community Bot 1. Why would it be "unfortunate"? I remember there was an American couple on that Internet show arguing about whether it is Sunday or Saturday the weekend.
In certain languages, such as Portuguese or Vietnamese, the names of the day of the week literally are ordinal phrases, as in "the second day" Monday , "the third day" Tuesday , "the "seventh day" Saturday , even though in practice "the second day" may still be considered "the first" and "the seventh day" the six. Cascabel The author Christopher Booker has rather a checkered past I immediately find the "Moon goddess Monday " part dubious. And if "Surtur" is supposed to be equivalent to Saturn, I'm curious as to how this author thinks "Surtur" cognate with English "swart" as in "swarthy", and German "Schwarz" as in "Schwarzenegger" would've evolved into "Satur" as in Saturday.
Show 1 more comment. Bob Bob 3 3 bronze badges. Wikipedia seems to contradict your first sentence see the history section of this article, where it says that associating week day names with planets does not date back to the Babylonians: en. Do you have a source? Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile.
Version labels for answers. Linked 5. Related But it might have a solid core somewhere in there. Saturn's atmosphere is made up mostly of hydrogen H 2 and helium He. Saturn has 53 known moons with an additional 29 moons awaiting confirmation of their discovery—that is a total of 82 moons.
Saturn has the most spectacular ring system, with seven rings and several gaps and divisions between them. Few missions have visited Saturn: Pioneer 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2 flew by; But Cassini orbited Saturn times from to Saturn cannot support life as we know it, but some of Saturn's moons have conditions that might support life.
Perhaps the most iconic of all the planets in our solar system, Saturn is heavily present in pop culture. And in the movie "Interstellar," the wormhole that enables the astronauts to travel to another galaxy appears near Saturn. The rings we see are made of groups of tiny ringlets that surround Saturn.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in our solar system. The Latest. While Sunday and Monday get their names from the sun and moon, Tuesday through Friday are named for Germanic or Norse gods.
To get to the origin of the name for Saturday or any day of the week, for that matter , you have to start with the Babylonians. They were the ones who created the seven-day week that people still use today.
When the ancient Romans followed suit, they named the days after their planets, the sun, and the moon so named after the gods. This is true for all but Saturday. It's still not set in stone — the error bars on that calculation stretch between a minute and 52 seconds longer and a minute and 19 seconds shorter. But the new calculation's range beats a minute window. The research is described in a paper published yesterday Jan. Email Meghan Bartels at mbartels space.
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