Sentences with phrase «naming celestial bodies»

Unlike the IAU, which prohibits naming celestial bodies after pets, living people, copyrighted material or ideologically charged individuals, Uwingu has looser restrictions.

I am pleased that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has pledged to pay heed to public opinion when naming celestial bodies (24 August, p 7).

So the pledge by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to heed public opinion when naming celestial bodies is in - keeping with the zeitgeist — even if its hand was forced by the good - natured outcry over its earlier decision to ignore a bid, led by Star Trek star William Shatner, to name a Plutonian moon «Vulcan» (see «Official planet namer listens to voice of the people «-RRB-.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features, recently approved a dozen names proposed by NASA's New Horizons team, which led the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons in 2015 with the New Horizons spacecraft.

Not exact matches

Even the names of our weekdays are named after certain celestial bodies.

When our writer set out to hang his name upon a celestial body, he never imagined he would have to navigate such an Earthbound bureaucracy

The people who live on this celestial body (named after Diane Ravitch, a former reformer who turned into a champion of the failing status quo) are afflicted with a dyslexic - like condition: they have the entire education reform picture exactly backwards.

The name Sizigi, which Chevy calls «a stylized version of syzygy,» means an almost straight - line configuration of celestial bodies.

There are several girls in the group, all named after a celestial body, but Sailor Moon is the poster girl