Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Long before production began in the summer of 1997, two teams hunkered down to realize Lucas' vision. One was the art department, led by Doug Chiang. He and his crew cranked out some 3,000 drawings of planets, cities, swamps, creatures, racing pods, new mechanical versions of storm troopers (Lucas...
Savvy speculators may want to look into the new solar system found orbiting the star UPSILON ANDROMEDAE last week. Distant planets have been popping up for a few years, but always singly; this is the first time astronomers have found a group. One even has an Earthlike orbit, so it...
I am occasionally accused of having backtracked on memes, of having lost heart, pulled in my horns, had second thoughts. The truth is that my first thoughts were more modest than some memeticists might wish. For me the original mission was negative. The word was introduced at the end of...
Nisenson also pointed out that two of the discovered planets were within "the habitable zone," the distance from a star that corresponds to planets with temperatures roughly similar to those of Venus, Earth and Mars.
"There's no reason not to think that these planets might have moons that might have life on them," Nisenson said.