planetary
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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
The Moon helps point the way to a celestial teapot, Venus becomes exceptionally bright, the seasons officially turn, and the Harvest Moon appears with two planetary companions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Scientists usually assume that the interiors of planetary bodies are generally spherically symmetric, but this is not necessarily true," Berne says.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The bigger asteroidal pieces, along with the comets, are mainly responsible for the recent craters on planetary surfaces.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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