Sentences with word «planethood»

Best known for depriving Pluto of planethood by showing that there are many similar bodies in orbit beyond Neptune, Eris's great distance from the sun means the effects of general relativity become negligible.

Last August, after 75 years of planethood, Pluto lost its status when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) came up with a new definition of what it means to be a planet.

According to a draft definition of the term planet that was presented for approval at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2006, Charon would have met both qualifications for planethood.

When it comes to determining planethood, the International Astronomical Union has a credo: Location, location, location.

Since slipping into orbit around the solar system's second-most massive asteroid last July, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has confirmed Vesta's status as a body whose arrested growth denied it true planethood.

As of 2017, delegates from the mission are trying to get Pluto's planethood status back.

Except it fails one key test for planethood: It does not orbit a star.

Lofted into low - Earth orbit in 2019 or 2020, the tiny telescope would spend two years staring at Alpha Centauri's two stars, then stacking up tens of thousands of sequential images to amplify the appearance of any promising dots and to confirm their planethood by watching them whirl around their respective stars.

As books come out on Pluto by Alan and David, and by Laurel, and scientific papers and whatnot, hopefully, the truth about Pluto's planethood will be known throughout the Cosmos.