Which planet is named after the Greek god of the sky?
Uranium a black powder, which he thought was the newly discovered metal itself (in fact, that powder was an oxide of uranium). He named the newly discovered element after the planet Uranus (named after the primordial Greek god of the sky), which had been discovered eight years earlier by William Herschel. In 1841, Eugène-Melchior Péligot, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Central School of Arts and Manufactures) in Paris, isolated the first sample of uranium metal by heating uranium tetrachloride with potassium. Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity by using uranium in 1896. Becquerel made the discovery
Mercury (planet) The cuneiform name used to designate Mercury on the Mul.Apin tablets is transcribed as Udu.Idim.Gu\u.Ud ("the jumping planet"). Babylonian records of Mercury date back to the 1st millennium BC. The Babylonians called the planet Nabu after the messenger to the gods in their mythology. The ancient Greeks knew the planet as Στίλβων ("Stilbon"), meaning "the gleaming", Ἑρμάων ("Hermaon") and Ἑρμής ("Hermes"), a planetary name that is retained in modern Greek (Ερμής: "Ermis"). The Romans named the planet after the swift-footed Roman messenger god, Mercury (Latin "Mercurius"), which they equated with the Greek Hermes, because it moves across the sky faster