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...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and served as Department of Astronomy chair from 1976-1982. Cameron’s primary research interests were the structure and evolution of solar nebula and the formation and sequence evolution of low-mass stars, as well as their nucleosynthesis. He also studied planet formation and the physics of planets and their atmospheres. In 1976, Cameron challenged contemporary beliefs with his new theory for the origin of the moon. He argued that an object at least the size of Mars struck our planet, causing fragments to be strewn into orbit around the Earth. The debris...
...Meet The New Planets" discussed some of the recently discovered planetlike objects that are orbiting our sun [Oct. 24] and the difficulty astronomers are having in deciding what is a planet. How about defining a planet as an object that is massive enough to be squeezed into a spherical shape by gravity, does not orbit another such object and orbits the sun in the same plane as the eight objects that we considered planets before 1930? Then Pluto and others with tilted orbits could be called planetoids. There, that was easy...
...inherently likable role, our bemused Virgil in the Inferno of media clichs. Colbert plays the devil himself: the millionaire pundit pretending to stand up for the little guy. He can even demagogue astronomy. When astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson told him Pluto should not be considered a planet, Colbert debated him thusly: "Isn't that just East Coast liberal intellectual ... did you go to an Ivy League school?" "Yes, I did." "... Ivy League-- educated people telling us what is or isn't a planet...
...He’s read more than any person on the planet, but you would never know because he’s such a down-to-earth guy. You can talk to him about absolutely anything,” says Leslie-Bernard Joseph ’06, president of the Princeton Undergraduate Student Government...
...would have drunk in Brussels. Outside, the people starved." It is unfair to criticize Kim for indulging in excesses while the poor of his country starved since, with the exception of a few European countries, that allegation can be made against the leaders of virtually every nation on the planet. Shaik Ibrahim Madras, India...