planetary
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The possibility eventually drew the attention of Gordon Osinski, a planetary geologist at Western University who also directs the Impact Earth database.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Combining Euronext and Deutsche Boerse would create “a pan-European market infrastructure which has a planetary scale,” Boujnah said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It will be followed by the impressive Orionid meteor shower in late October, and a planetary parade, the Leonid meteor shower and a supermoon in November.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Result: whiffs of the paper-clip maximizer, an ancient AI thought experiment in which a computer ends up consuming all planetary resources pursuant to its instruction to make paper clips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Red giants find their outer atmospheres blowing away into space; planetary nebulae are the final stages of Sunlike stars blowing their tops.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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