planetary
Example Sentences
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The Moon will appear to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length," Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
To Jef Caers, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Stanford University who happens to be Belgian, the museum’s stance looks like “delay tactics.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
Understanding how this wetter world transformed into the barren landscape we see now remains a major question in planetary science.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
That means astronomers could use them to better understand how stellar particles influence planetary environments.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
Repeated appeals to the church authorities failed to resolve the situation, but took up time that Kepler might have spent on his planetary work.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
