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A planet, in astronomy, is one of a class of celestial bodies that orbit stars. (A dwarf planet is a similar, but officially mutually exclusive, class of body.)

* For articles on specific types of planet, see List of planets

Planet or Planets may also refer to:
* Planets in astrology, celestial bodies used in prophecy
* The planet, a term often used to refer to Earth

As an acronym

* Professional Landcare Network, a US organization for lawn care, landscape architecture and related professionals
* Probing Lensing Anomalies Network, a network of optical astronomical telescopes used for photometry
* Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique, a barcoding system for sorting mail used by the US Postal Service

Computing

* Planet (software), software for collecting posts from RSS feeds and republishing them on a website
* Planet Network, network of video game-related websites operated by GameSpy
* Planet Online, UK Internet service provider
* The Planet Internet Services, large dedicated hosting service provider

Film and television

* ''The Planet'' (film), a 2006 Swedish documentary film
* ''The Planets'' (film), 1983
*''The Planets'', first-season title of ''The Planets and Beyond'', a Science Channel documentary series
* ''The Planets'' (1999 TV series), a BBC TV documentary series
* ''The Planets'' (2019 TV series), a BBC TV documentary series presented by Professor Brian Cox
*Planète (TV channel), a French television channel, now known as Planète+
* '' Planetes'', 2003 Sunrise, Inc. manga and anime television series
*Planet or Captain Planet, character in '' Captain Planet and the Planeteers''

Magazines and newspapers

*'' Planet (magazine)'', a Welsh cultural and political quarterly
*''Planet Magazine'', on-line science fiction magazine
*''Planet PC'', a British computer gaming magazine
*'' Planet Stories'', science fiction magazine published from 1939-1955
* ''Planète'' (review), a French magazine of the fantastic realism literary movement
* ''Daily Planet'', a fictional newspaper in the Superman universe

Music

* '' The Planets'', a suite of orchestral music by Gustav Holst
* The Planets (band), a classical music band formed by Mike Batt
* ''Planets'' (Adema album), by Adema
* ''Planets'', an album by the art rock band One Ring Zero
* ''Planets'' (Eloy album), by the German band Eloy from 1982
* "Planets" (song), a 2010 song by the Australian pop-rock band Short Stack
* "Planet", a song from the album ''Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!'' by The Sugarcubes
* ''Planet'', a series of EPs by Basement Jaxx
* "Planets", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from '' Hail to the King''
* ''The Planet'' (album), by Young Ejecta

Transport

* Planet (locomotive), an early British steam railway locomotive
* 'Planet' trademark for petrol locomotives produced by Kent Construction and Engineering Ltd in England after WW1
* 2-2-0, a class of railway locomotives including the latter
* Planet Airways, a US airline
* Cagiva Planet, an Italian motorcycle
*The PLANET series of Japanese unmanned spacecraft:
** PLANET-A, alternative name for Suisei (probe)
** PLANET-B, alternative name for Nozomi (probe)
** PLANET-C, alternative name for Akatsuki (probe)
* Name of several German oceanographic research vessels:
** SMS Planet (1905), survey ship of the Kaiserliche Marine
** Planet (1967), research vessel of the German Navy
** Planet (2005), research vessel of the German Navy

Sport

* "The Planets", nickname given to Kenyan association football club Ligi Ndogo S.C.
* Planet (horse), a racing horse

Other uses

* Planet, a Jacques Vert retail clothing brand
* Planet (company), a financial services company specialised in multicurrency payments, credit card processing and the management of Tax-free shopping
* Planet Labs, an American public Earth imaging company

See also

* Planetary (disambiguation)

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