Heavenly bodies associated with the sun and the moon are the 9 planets. In this verse, there appears to be a hint that there are eleven planets. It is said that the Asteroids between Mars and Jupiter are the fragments of two planets which had crashed. If this is correct, the number of planets would be eleven. Some Astronomers classify Chiron, a comet, as a planet: in which case if the Asteroids are considered as fragments of only one planet, then too the number of planets would be eleven. Nevertheless these heavenly bodies are symbols, the sun depicting the father, the moon mother and eleven planets 11 brothers 12:100. These heavenly bodies do not have heads like us, therefore their ‘Sajdah’ cannot be like that of ours. Here too the word ‘Sajdah’ appears to be symbolic meaning ‘Respectful submission.