Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One other potential problem is in-fighting at the White House. Ickes and Morris, the twin planets of the Clinton re-election team, barely tolerate each other. They are the poster boys of the opposing White House camps: liberals vs. moderate New Democrats. Morris has solidified his role as Clinton...
A Pliny pattern persists. The scientific side of the observer's mind demands objective evidence, as the great naturalist usually did; but the brain's mythopoeic, magic-thinking side is lured to marvels--to alchemy, to spells, to bat people on the moon or aliens on other planets. Can these...
That won't be easy. The newly discovered planets are much bigger than Earth, yet it is almost impossible to learn very much about them. The stars they orbit--70 Virginis in the constellation Virgo and 47 Ursae Majoris in the Great Bear--are each about 35 light-years away...
That information, along with the laws of orbital mechanics and planetary formation, let Marcy and Butler paint a portrait of the new worlds. They're like Jupiter: mostly gas, with small cores of rock. If water exists on either, it's the temperature of hot tea and is located high...
There is another, intriguing possibility, however. As Marcy points out, the planets are almost certainly orbited by one or more moons. "If they are comparable in size to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn," he says, "they could easily have rain and oceans." Such speculations fire the imagination. But the...