planetary
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They were worried about El Niño, a planetary dance of weather phenomena that starts with spiking heat in the Pacific and deals out drought and floods across continents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Studying such a large population could help astronomers determine how common different types of planetary systems are and whether some distant worlds resemble planets closer to home.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Humans are natural explorers, and with them come their voices, their memories … and their microbes," said Prabal Saxena, a planetary scientist who led the study from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Turtle and Lorenz are seasoned hands in the planetary science world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
You may think that this is simply because Galileo’s law is incomplete: Newton’s theory of gravity provides an explanation both of Galileo’s law of fall and of Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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