"...extending through all space, and compelling to their proper orbits, the planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness."
— Planet

January 1, 1970

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Percy Shelley in: Sir William Rowan Hamilton Introductory lecture on astronomy, delivered in Trinity college, Dublin, Nov. 8th, 1832, p. 6