Sentences with phrase «planetary astronomer»

A planetary astronomer is a scientist who studies and explores planets and celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond. They focus on understanding the properties, behavior, and origins of these astronomical objects. Full definition
«This is the first exoplanet discovered with the Gemini Planet Imager, one of the new generation instruments designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright stars,» said Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute and member of the team that built the instrument and now conducts the survey.
But planetary astronomer Mike Brown and others infer that larger, planet - size bodies could have also been exiled to the Oort cloud; this is the basis for our Planet Y. — The editors
Planetary astronomers hope to better understand how dark vortices originate, what controls their drifts and oscillations, how they interact with the environment, and how they eventually dissipate, according to UC Berkeley doctoral student Joshua Tollefson, who was recently awarded a prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to study Neptune's atmosphere.
Thus planetary astronomers talk about the «Goldilocks problem:» is Earth's favorable climate an accident, or maybe an act of God?
«They're very close, and this is a very small object,» says Mark Showalter, a planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led the campaign.
«We've come to recognize that Ceres has a lot of characteristics that are intriguing for those looking at how life starts,» says Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who was not involved in the study.
«This whole word planet is just magical,» says Mike Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech.
If these telltale signs appear together in light from a distant object, they hint that water vapor might be present there, explains Lorenz Roth, a planetary astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.
«Pretty much it was just one of those things where you stare at it and say, «Huh, I hope we get more data,»» says Mark Showalter, a planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., and the lead author of the study on Jupiter's rings.
Nowadays Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech, has no doubt about Pluto's place in the solar system: «Pluto is not a planet.
Mars will be targeted as part of a Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) project led by Heidi Hammel, a planetary astronomer and executive vice president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in Washington, D.C..
Squyres, a planetary astronomer at Cornell, is the PI of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission.
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