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Inspired by JLee's original Word™/Phrase™ puzzles.

If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Heavenly word. Use the examples to find the rule:

Heavenly Words™ Non-Heavenly Words™
behead decapitate
alabaster gypsum
paywalls purchase
inverse contrary
unjoin detached
Wolfram Tungsten
sixtieth seventieth
scenery landscape
harvest pick

What is the rule for determining what words are Heavenly, or Non-Heavenly?

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A Heavenly Word™ is one which

contains letters which make minor planets in our Solar system.

The Heavenly words

behead - Hebe
alabaster- Astraea
paywalls - Pallas
inverse - Irene
unjoin - Juno
Wolfram - Flora
sixtieth - Thetis
scenery - Ceres
harvest - Vesta

These can all be found in the

top 20 of this list of minor planets

Note: I updated from the original too general 'objects' which Benjamin Wang superbly found ones in the Non-Heavenly Word™ list when I referred to List of Solar System objects.

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    $\begingroup$ Unfortunately, rot13(V jebgr n fpevcg gb purpx gung chepunfr pbagnvaf eurn, ghatfgra pbagnvaf fha, naq ynaqfpncr pbagnvaf frqan). It's a valiant effort though. $\endgroup$
    – Benjamin Wang
    Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 8:37
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    $\begingroup$ See pastebin.com/guav1cnR (table created with the help by wikitable2csv.ggor.de) $\endgroup$
    – Benjamin Wang
    Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 8:43
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    $\begingroup$ @Benjamin - great check for the Non-Heavenly Words™. As all 9 vs 3 this post may still be relevant. $\endgroup$
    – Tom
    Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 8:54
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    $\begingroup$ You have the general idea, but what are the specific objects? You have some associations wrong also. $\endgroup$
    – poco
    Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 9:38
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    $\begingroup$ Doesn't seventieth contain Thetis too? $\endgroup$
    – Amoz
    Commented Oct 6, 2023 at 1:21

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