Emoji for major planets at least?

[John H. Jenkins via Unicode]

Well, you can go with Venus = white planet, Mercury = grey planet, Uranus = greenish planet, Neptune = bluish planet, Jupiter = striped planet.

As you say, though, without a context, none of them convey much and Venus, at least, would just be a circle. 

Plus there's the question of the context in which someone would want to send little pictures of the planets. This sounds like it would be adding emoji just because.

> On Jan 18, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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> On 1/18/2018 6:55 AM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote:
>> Hello people.
>> 
>> We have sun, earth and moon emoji (3 for the earth and more for the
>> moon's phases). But we don't have emoji for the rest of the planets.
>> 
>> We have astrological symbols for all the planets and a few
>> non-existent imaginary "planets" as well.
>> 
>> Given this, would it be impractical to encode proper emoji characters
>> for the rest of the planets, at least the major ones whose physical
>> characteristics are well known and identifiable?
>> 
>> I mean for example identifying Sedna and Quaoar
>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EightTNOs.png <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EightTNOs.png>) is probably not
>> going to be practical for all those other than astronomy buffs but the
>> physical shapes of the major planets are known to all high school
>> students…
>> 
> Earth = blue planet (with clouds)
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> Mars = red planet
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> Saturn = planet with rings
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> I don't think any of the other ones are identifiable in a context-free setting, unless you draw a "big planet with red dot" for Jupiter.
> 
> Earth would have to be depicted in a way that doesn't focus on "hemispheres", or you miss the idea of it as "planet".
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> A./
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