SCI SOC CL Claudia Alemañy Castilla · Juventud Técnica IAU lanza invitación para nombrar a los planetas descubiertos por el telescopio James Webb La Unión Astronómica Internacional nombrará al menos 20 sistemas exoplanetarios.
SCI ECO SOC LA Laurel Kornfeld Astronomers Complain about Annual Coal Dump In 2006, they voted for what they believed was a scientifically sound planet definition. And every Christmas morning since that vote, they…
SCI TCH LA Laurel Kornfeld What Really Makes A Planet? Lessons Not Learned 14 Years after Pluto’s Demotion Ethan Siegel’s September 2, 2020, Forbes article, “What Makes a Planet: Lessons Learned 14 Years after Pluto’s Demotion” ironically…
SCI LE Lev Yug For long I told Jupiter and Neptune couldn’t clean their orbits, as mentioned here by Price, and… Pluto is not “almost” a binary planet: the gravity center of Charon and Pluto lies out of the crust of both bodies (but closer to Pluto’s…
SCI ECO LA Laurel Kornfeld Revisiting the definition of a planet This guest blog was published on the website of Astronomy magazine in response to an opinion piece recently published on Forbes.com.