Benefic planet The Sun and Mars Malefic planets – Mercury, Venus, The Moon, and Saturn Neutral planet – Jupiter Benefic planets – Venus and Mercury. Malefic planets –Jupiter, The Moon, and Mars Neutral planet – The Sun Benefic planets – Saturn and Mercury. Malefic planets – Mars, The Sun, Jupiter, and Mars Neutral planet – The Moon and Venus Benefic planets – The Moon, The Sun and Jupiter Malefic planets – Mercury and Venus Neutral planet – Saturn and Mars Benefic planets – Mars, The Sun and Jupiter Malefic planets – Mercury, Venus, and The Moon Neutral planet – none Benefic planets
Vulcan (hypothetical planet) Rochester, New York, both claimed to have seen a Vulcan-type planet close to the Sun. Watson, observing from Separation, Wyoming, placed the planet about 2.5 degrees southwest of the Sun and estimated its magnitude at 4.5. Swift, who was observing the eclipse from a location near Denver, Colorado, saw what he took to be an intra-mercurial planet about 3 degrees southwest of the Sun. He estimated its brightness to be the same as that of Theta Cancri, a fifth-magnitude star which was also visible during totality, about six or seven minutes from the "planet". Theta Cancri and the planet were