What is "inner planets"

Usage examples of "inner planets".

Hakim speculated they might have been enormous mirrors to refocus energy on the inner planets, or perhaps to deflect radiation from the red giant in its more violent phase.

Small and heavy inner planets swam deliberately in their short orbits around the sun.

So the lovely comets that on occasion rouse us humans to wonder and to awe, that crater the surfaces of inner planets and outer moons, and that now and then endanger life on Earth would be unknown and unthreatening had Uranus and Neptune not grown to be giant worlds four and a half billion years ago.

The inner planets move rapidly in their orbits - that is why Mercury has the name it does: Mercury was the messenger of the gods.

Drive fields tentatively IDed as freighters moved back and forth between its huge asteroid belt and the inner planets, and the RDs had long-range readings on the mammoth orbital constructs those freighters apparently served.

There'll be a black hole with a mass thirty-one and a half times greater than the Sun lingering too close to the inner planets.

Anywhere in the inner planets I didn't dare use my own name, or make any mention of my previous credits and career.

The CHOAM representative at the powindah conference that had taken Waff away from the inner planets of Tleilax had emphasized that very point.