counter-Earth

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ Earth.

Noun

counter-Earth

1. Alternative form of counter-earth
   • 2001, B. K. Ridley, On Science:

     Possibly to explain eclipses, and possibly to achieve for the astral world the perfection of the number Ten, Philolaus imagined that a dark Counter-Earth existed, invisible to the Earth.

   • 2005, Dimitra Karamanides, Pythagoras:

     These ten Spheres were the sun, moon, Earth, the five additional known planets at the time—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—the counter-Earth, and the central hearth.

   • 2010, Neil F. Comins, What If the Earth Had Two Moons?:

     His convoluted ideas, derived before the concept of the gravitational force was known, had the Earth and the counter-Earth orbiting a central fire of the universe, which was not the Sun.

   • 2014, George Lysloff, Personal Journals of a Would-Be Philosopher, page 58:

     The Earth has its counter-Earth, matter its anti-matter and each reality has its counter-reality, all of it wrapped into the Ultimate Essence.