Terra (mythology) vegetative and animal fertility and abundance. Tellumo is identified by St. Augustine as the male counterpart of Tellus. A Tellurus is named uniquely by Martianus Capella (1.49). In several modern Romance languages, "terra" (or French "terre") is the name of planet Earth. Following post-classical Latin astronomical terminology, Earth is sometimes referred to as "Terra". Terra (mythology) In ancient Roman religion and myth, Tellus Mater or Terra Mater ("Mother Earth") is a goddess of the earth. Although Tellus and Terra are hardly distinguishable during the Imperial era, "Tellus" was the name of the original earth goddess in the religious practices of
Five-planet Nice model in 2011 after numerical models indicated that this is more likely to reproduce the current Solar System. The following is a version of the five-planet Nice model that results in a late instability and reproduces a number of aspects of the current Solar System. The early Solar System may have evolved differently, however, with the instability occurring soon after the dissipation of the gas nebula, or with the giant planets beginning in another resonance chain. The Solar System ends its nebula phase with Jupiter, Saturn, and the three ice giants in a 3:2, 3:2, 2:1, 3:2 resonance chain with semi-major