AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Planet?(The Week)(plutoid)(Brief article)
Planet? Dwarf planet? Asteroid? Kuiper Belt Object? The executive committee of the International Astronomical Union, meeting in solemn conclave in Oslo, Norway, has determined that the celestial body formerly known as the ninth planet is in fact a "plutoid." Any other big-enough-to-be-spherical objects beyond the orbit of Neptune will henceforth also be designated plutoids, the IAU ruled. Does this mean that the unseemly wrangling over the status of Pluto may finally, after two years, be at ...
- Taking The Cosmic View.(International Astronomical Union)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Morton, Oliver September 18, 2000 700+ words
To eavesdrop on the deliberations of the recent International Astronomical Union in Manchester, England, was to hear the white-water rush of a science in full spate. Areas of research once almost entirely...
- Poor Pluto!(The Week)(delisted by International Astronomical Union)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: National Review July 9, 2007 700+ words
* Poor Pluto! Stripped of its status as a planet by the International Astronomical Union last August, it has now been further demoted. Investigations by two Caltech astronomers, reported in a recent issue of...
- Maps of the cosmos; proceedings.(Symposium of the International Astronomical...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News December 1, 2005 700+ words
1583812024 Maps of the cosmos; proceedings. Symposium of the International Astronomical Union (216th: 2003: Sydney, Australia) Ed. by Matthew Colless et al. Astronomical Soc./Pacific 2005 411 pages $95...
- What is a planet?(International Astronomical Union standards )(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Science World October 9, 2006 700+ words
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) came up with three criteria that a celestial body has to meet to qualify as a planet: 1 The body must orbit the...
- Stars and galaxies.(reports on starbursts at 1998 International Astronomical...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 14, 1998 700+ words
...important in regulating the lives of the galaxies in which they occur. The delegates to a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Puerto Vallarta have been finding out why. Starbursts are thought to begin because a cloud of...
- New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters:...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News June 1, 2006 700+ words
...1583812121 New cosmological data and the values of the fundamental parameters; proceedings. Symposium of the International Astronomical Union (201st: Manchester, United Kingdom) Ed. by Anthony Lasenby and Althea Wilkinson. Astronomical Soc...
- New solar system? Twelve planets and counting.(International Astronomical Union...
- Magazine article from: Science News Cowen, R. August 19, 2006 700+ words
...system has 12 planets instead of the familiar 9, according to a proposal that the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will vote on next week in Prague, Czech Republic. The IAU had asked a panel of seven astronomers...
- Innovation in astronomy education.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News March 1, 2009 700+ words
...Teaching/Learning Astronomy, of the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Prague in 2006...related to the implementation of the 2003 International Astronomical Union Resolution that recommended including...
Source: HighBeam Research, Planet?(The Week)(plutoid)(Brief article)