Sentences with phrase «planet named for»

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Santiago, Chile, has made a name for itself as one of the most foreign - entrepreneur - friendly cities on the planet, and as a test bed for launching into Latin America.

It's no wonder that the city was named one of the best cities for travel in 2018 by Lonely Planet.

«You write a story that has Mr. Trump's name in it, with the word «rape,» and I'm going to mess your life up... for as long as you're on this frickin» planet... you're going to have judgments against you, so much money, you'll never know how to get out from underneath it,» he added.

Believers and non-believers alike, united by a common concern for the future of the planet, have high hopes that someone who chose to name himself after that great lover of creation, Francis of Assisi, will say something truly transformational, for as a Canadian Council of Churches document lamentably observes, transformative change has not «found traction within political processes.»

The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

Environmentalism, for example, no longer is content to conserve resources for posterity and protect pristine areas and endangered species, but seems increasingly dedicated to actively impeding human flourishing in the name of «saving the planet.»

Even when they do act in the name of anonymous facts like rising seas and damaged planets, they rightly choose for human beings as individuals and families over the nameless facts of science.

Yes it's a far stretch from UFO's to an enlightened civilization, but those who are visiting are surely more sane than this planet of nations competing for resources, polluting the water and land while still using fossil fuels, fighting in «God's» name...

And also the planets and many of their moons and some asteroids are named for those gods & goddesses, and they watch over us all the time!

She had fun assigning planet names to each particular coating and color — if I remember correctly, matcha was for Earth, while lavender represented Venus, turmeric — Mars, and so on.

Hazard has backed up his promise to challenge for the crown of being named the best player on the planet with a simply sublime season, and he can lay claim to winning his side 11 points single - handedly this term — more than their current 10 - point gap at the top.

New parents are looking to the stars and planets for inspiration and embracing gender - neutral baby names in a whole new way.

Being one of the oldest languages spoken on the planet today, names with a Greek origin provide a historic and mythical feel fit for a baby king, queen or warrior.

Smart Bottoms and Grovia both have a particularly unique design for their hanging wet bag and Planet Wise is a name synonymous with amazing wet storage but those are just a couple out of a myriad of great hanging wet bag options.

When you buy the Fisher - Price Precious Planet Whale of a Tub you know that you are doing the best for your little one during bath time because this product is backed by the trusted Fisher - Price name.

Planet names, religious figures, and constellations have often been the source of inspiration for parents looking for unique baby names.

Saturn is the dominant planet for this name.

Venus is the controlling planet for this name.

«You write a story that has Mr. Trump's name in it, with the word «rape», and I'm going to mess your life up... for as long as you're on this frickin» planet.»

Without using Trump's name, Cuomo called the new White House policy «reckless» that will have «devastating repercussions not only for the United States, but for our planet.»

The planet, named Kepler - 78b, is the smallest exoplanet for which researchers know both size and mass.

For schoolchildren trying to memorize the names and order of the planets, life just got a bit harder.

New discoveries are making chlorophyll - d and a cyanobacterium named Acaryochloris marina interesting for scientists trying to find life on extrasolar planets

Moyer: Well, they've created of course an Avatar, digital avatar for Watson which is very IBM - like, there's a planet and the glow and Adam type string is going around it that you'll be able to see and in the taping today he was in the center position between the other two human contestants and where human contestants, you know, everyone writes down their name in cursive on the front of their Jeopardy! platform I guess whatever it is Watson was in center.

Cassini, the spacecraft about to dive into Saturn, was named for the astronomical pioneer who first perceived the gap between the planet's famous rings.

The four Galilean moons, the first objects known to orbit another planet, are named for Galileo Galilei, who is credited with discovering them in 1610.

That's why geologists have come up with a new name for this new era in the planet's 4.5 billion year history: the Anthropocene, or the «age of man.»

Thousands to tens of thousands of new planets will be rolling in, and the verification of the first truly Earth - like alien planet — which will beg for a real name — is also likely right around the corner.

Bellerophon The nickname for 51 Pegasi b, the first planet found around a sunlike star, named after the Greek mythological hero who rode the winged horse Pegasus, which by no coincidence is the constellation of the host star.

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Haumea, another dwarf planet, is named for a Hawaiian goddess of childbirth.

Long before Star Trek's Mr. Spock (inset), many astronomers during the 19th and early 20th centuries thought a planet named Vulcan circled the sun inside the orbit of Mercury (shown transiting the sun, main image) and tugged on the latter, accounting for peculiarities in Mercury's motion.

Earth (for comparison) Despite our planet's name, about 70 percent of its surface is covered with water.

These moons» exact orbits aren't yet known because they have been observed for such a short time, so official recognition and naming by the Minor Planet Center (the clearinghouse for information on moons, comets, etc.) must wait until the moons are spotted again this fall.

Nominations were invited for notable women, because Venus is a «female» planet, and because most planetary features bear male names.

Its name gave homage to «Biosphere 1» — Earth — and signaled the project's audacious ambition: to copy our planet's life systems in a prototype for a future colony on Mars.

F# # k Pluto, it was a sorry excuse for a planet anyhow, good riddance to bad solar trash, but now that the name is free, why not rename Uranus Pluto and get rid of all that grade school snickering.

They even gave the putative new planet a name: Vulcan, after the Roman god of fire, fitting for a world whose surface temperature would be hot enough to melt lead and zinc.

Brown still recalls the mnemonic he learned for the names of the planets: Martha visits every Monday and — a for asteroids — just stays until noon, period.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

For now, however, the sole vote I could cast in confidence from the IAU's selection would go to a proposed name for the planet - hosting pulsar PSR 1257 +12: «Hubris.&raqFor now, however, the sole vote I could cast in confidence from the IAU's selection would go to a proposed name for the planet - hosting pulsar PSR 1257 +12: «Hubris.&raqfor the planet - hosting pulsar PSR 1257 +12: «Hubris.»

Elsewhere, many of the names are glib non-sequiturs that would be questionable for a pet, let alone a planet.

(The planet and its host star, known as WASP 3, are named for the search program that found the planet, the Wide - Angle Search for Planets.)

For instance, the IAU states that it is not allowed to propose the same name for a host star and a planet around it, yet one entry for the planetary system of Tau Boötis suggests calling both the star and its planet «Alfraganus.&raqFor instance, the IAU states that it is not allowed to propose the same name for a host star and a planet around it, yet one entry for the planetary system of Tau Boötis suggests calling both the star and its planet «Alfraganus.&raqfor a host star and a planet around it, yet one entry for the planetary system of Tau Boötis suggests calling both the star and its planet «Alfraganus.&raqfor the planetary system of Tau Boötis suggests calling both the star and its planet «Alfraganus.»

Based on all we now know, there are sound astrophysical and astrobiological reasons to suspect that planets are in fact more worthy of names than almost anything else in the universe, because they stand alone as the fundamental pathway for names to exist at all, through the genesis of life and the evolution of sentient beings — the little, self - aware pieces of the cosmos privileged to name all the rest.

There is a minor planet / asteroid formally named for me by the International Astronomical Union --(4713) Steel — and also a lunar - roving robot (again called Steel) in one of Arthur C. Clarke's SF novels (Clarke provided the Foreword for one of my books, and the Afterword for another).

Almost three years after NASA's New Horizons deep space probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has released the first list of official names for features on the face of the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.

A discordant name for a dwarf planet.

He thinks Eris is a fitting name for the new dwarf planet because astronomers have argued for so long over how to define a planet.

Burney crater is named after Venetia Burney, who was only 11 years old when she suggested the name «Pluto» for the newly - discovered dwarf planet.