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“See yonder, lo, the Galaxyë
Which men clepeth the Milky Wey,
For hit is whyt, c. A.D. 1374–85.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame
Hebrew אֶת (et) means “I” or “You,” and it is often used as a preposition to introduce a direct object.
In Chemistry, Et (et) with no periods is an abbreviation for ethyl.
E.T. or ET (e.t., et) with or without periods also means Eastern Time, electrical transcription, or ephemeris time; a table, book, set of tables, or data files giving the precise calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period of time. See Also, GPS.
Last, but never the least, E.T. is an informal abbreviation for extraterrestrial. Medieval Latin exterus, extra- (beyond the scope of, out of, outside, outwars, or without) + terrestrial (of or pertaining to terra “earth,” opposed to celestial, from a PIE root *ters- meaning “dry,” “to dry”). As a result, an extraterrestrial is an outside entity, deity, or object originating away from the Earth and its atmosphere; a creature from another planet.
The 8 —3,273.6,000,000,000 Planets
Purportedly, the Earth’s solar system has only 8+ planets, rotating and moving outward from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (although formerly nine, when counting the dwarf planet, Pluto).
However, there are 5,500 known planets and more than an estimated 3,273.6,000,000,000 (three trillion) unknown planets— within the Earth’s solar system.
Amongst 200+ dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt alone and over 10,000 in the regions of the great beyond, there are 5 officially recognized dwarf planets, or wee worlds, in our solar system: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.
The 1,351,400 Asteroids
Currently, there are over one million known asteroids within the main asteriod belt between Mars and Jupiter.
