Sentences with phrase «status as a planet»

In an e-mail sent to Kepler scientists who work on the project, representatives from NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (who manage the institute's «Exoplanet Archive» catalogue) wrote Kepler 452 b should keep its status as a planet for now: «This new paper has not definitively shown that the Kepler 452 b signal is instrumental in origin.

But a pair of astronomers are now putting the question of what defines a galaxy to a public vote, in the hope of reaching a consensus and avoiding the sort of controversy that surrounded Pluto being stripped of its status as a planet.

Now, in an echo of the recent wrangling over Pluto's status as a planet, a pair of astrophysicists from Australia and Germany want to start a debate on the issue — and they have even set up a Web site for people to cast their votes.

Although Pluto was stripped of its status as a planet, an ice cap is a surprisingly Earth - like property.

An alternative definition would have let Pluto keep its status as a planet and added at least three other objects to the list of planets (see «Pluto and the Plutons»).

Interestingly its target's status as a planet changed while the spacecraft was already on its five billion mile journey.

In fact, not only could the South American forest soon lose its status as the planet's most - important «carbon sink», but an increased frequency of severe droughts could transform it into a major emitter or harmful carbon emissions.

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But because we focus on subjective experience as the locus of value, and because we believe that human experiences are the richest on this planet, we also affirm of human beings a quite distinct and special status.

We know damn well, as we live it every day, how successful his mission to collapse our country's economy as well as diminish the US status around the planet has been.

Having hung up his boots in 2014, Giggs retired as one of the most legendary footballers on the face of the planet — a status which his name still demands to this very day.

The International Astronomical Union defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun; has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; or within another system, it is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and is above the minimum mass / size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.

One amendment would have left its status open to debate by creating two categories of planets — the eight «classical planets» as well as «dwarf planets» — that might have seemed to be on equal footing.

So, he says, is Europa, commonly known as a moon of Jupiter, and so is the Earth's moon, and so are more than 100 other celestial bodies in our solar system that are denied this status under the prevailing definition of «planet.»

If the early results hold up, this time it's the dwarf planet Eris's turn to be demoted, and Pluto might have just regained its status as the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

However, these kinds of programs are only possible when zoos are part of a global network such as ISIS, where it is possible to monitor the status of threatened species across the planet's zoos.

Some planetary scientists still dispute Pluto's planet status, and Stern says he'll always think of Pluto as a planet.

More than 190 nations and territories belong to WMO, which serves as the official «voice» on the status of the planet's atmosphere and how it is behaving.

It is being referred to as the ninth planet, since poor Pluto had been demoted to dwarf planet status, leaving only eight «real» planets, which does not sit well with a lot of people who still believe that Pluto should be classified as a proper planet, not just a mini-version of one.

Pluto may have recently been demoted to the status of dwarf planet, but as astronomers learn more about this distant body, they are learning it behaves more like a planet than once believed.

If you grew up knowing that there were nine planets orbiting our sun and were a bit crushed when Pluto lost its status among those celestial bodies, there might be new hope for a nine - pack, as researchers are again putting forth the idea that a giant planet might be lurking somewhere out there on the fringes of our Solar System.

In recent years, there's been a lot of hubbub about Pluto losing its status as one of the planets of the solar system.

He's now considered a Centaur — part of a class of bodies orbiting between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt — and has been leveled up to «minor planet» status while simultaneously being categorized as a comet.

Lesnar pummeled Mir until he was barely conscious and in doing so further cemented his status as the number one heavyweight on the planet.

(Don't think too much about the prequel / sequel status of these films as they relate to the original Planet of the Apes films — thats just a wormhole.)

Both films are the product of internationally renowned auteurs, Larrain's star rising like a comet in a year in which he's had three critically - acclaimed films and Farhadi maintaining his status as one of the most respected filmmakers on the planet.

As fate would have it, Gravel recently landed on my plate for review, and I've since spent hours blazing exotic tracks across the planet in my journey of achieving Off - Road Master status.

To me it was logical to invent the word «earthcentrism» as a far more realistic descriptor of our actual status within the ecosystem of Planet Earth.

Using any device on the planet with an active Internet connection, you can compare low rates from local community lenders, get an instant decision as to the status of your loan based on your credit history and more.

As I see it, too many leaders understand quite well the precarious status of the tiny planet we inhabit; nonetheless, they adamantly refuse to acknowledge or speak openly about the distinctly human - induced predicament that looms ominously before the human community in our time.

Amid the constant alarmist bickering over the role of CO2 in our planet's continued shifting of climate whether caused or accelerated by human activity and similar hair splitting, the true threats to our status - quo go un-heralded as the siren of alarm numbs our sensibilities.

Polar bears, as we know, have a special status as the poster children of the manmade global warming «it's all our fault and the planet is doomed due to our selfishness, greed and refusal to amend our carbon - guzzling lifestyles» movement.

But I am absolutely agog at how a publication such as this has the balls to call itself «Healthy Planet» WITHOUT FEATURING ANY articles that actually directly pertain to the status of the «health of the planet.&Planet» WITHOUT FEATURING ANY articles that actually directly pertain to the status of the «health of the planet.&planet.»

Nevertheless, to see the Anthropocene as a blip that can be minimised, and from which the planet, and its people, can simply revert to the status quo, may be to underestimate the sheer scale of what is going on.

When Pluto lost its standing as a planet, some teachers had to wait years for print textbooks that accurately described its new status.

Kang explained that if it gains enough traction, it could be elevated from its current status as a SK Planet side - project — in the style of a Google 30 percent time initiative — to a standalone product, or perhaps even SK subsidiary.

Kamprad disputed his status as one of the richest men on the planet, having decades earlier placed control of the world's largest furniture seller into a network of foundations and holding companies.