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SOLAR SYSTEM
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Geocentric
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Earth First
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Egocentric
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Solarology
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Detailed explanation-1: -In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, often exemplified specifically by the Ptolemaic system) is a superseded description of the Universe with Earth at the center.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ptolemaic (Geocentric) Model: The geocentric model, in which planet Earth is the center of the universe and is circled by the sun and all the planets, had been the accepted cosmological model since ancient times.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the 4th century BC Greece, philosophers developed the geocentric model, based on astronomical observation; this model proposed that the center of the Universe lies at the center of a spherical, stationary Earth, around which the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars rotate.