"wandering star" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Calque of Ancient Greek ἀστὴρ πλανήτης (astḕr planḗtēs) as distinguished from the fixed stars.",
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          "ref": "1877, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, The planetary and stellar worlds",
          "text": "Might it not be possible, that this wandering star would pass by the sun and reappear in the east?",
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          "ref": "1988, Alan Richardson, A Mental Theater",
          "text": "[...] Or warring with the spirits who may dare Dispute with him Who made all empire, empire; or recalling Some wandering star, which shoots through the abyss Whose tenants dying, while their world is falling Share the dim destiny of clay in this.",
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          "ref": "[ 2000, Linda Goodman, Linda Goodman's Star Signs",
          "text": "The word planet is an old Greek word meaning \"wandering star\" (planets wander, Fixed Stars do not) — so either term is correct, although modern popular usage is planet. I like star. Especially \"wandering star.\" ]"
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          "ref": "2005, Constance Stellas, Advanced Astrology for Life",
          "text": "In ancient times, a fixed star was so named to distinguish it from a wandering star or planet.",
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          "ref": "2009, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction",
          "text": "Now he turned his flight, a prayer short of light-speed, towards the wandering star. Jedden had long ago abolished fear. Yet he experienced a strange psychosomatic sensation in that part of the splinter ship that corresponded to his testicles.",
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        "A star which seems to move in the sky; a planet."
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