Planets
A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and – according to the International Astronomical Union but not all planetary scientists – has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, astrology, science, mythology, and religion. Apart from Earth itself, five planets in the Solar System are often visible to the naked eye. These were regarded by many early cultures as divine, or as emissaries of deities. As scientific knowledge advanced, …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday …
the Wild 4 small or that there are only a few planets. My belief doesn’t commit me to believing everything … that the conditions for life are right on other planets. The relevant experts – astronomers and astrophysicists – … conditions. If gravity had been weaker, stars and planets wouldn’t have formed to begin with, and there …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 14 May 2024 English
NEW EDITION OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERTravel personality Robin Esrock explores the most unique experiences in British Columbia and Alberta in this inspiring, expanded guide from the bestselling Bucket List series.Having …
of them, floors of them, cities and towns and planets of them. Despite the obstacles that began the …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 23 February 2024 English
In particular, a long-term decreasing trend of the upwelling index during the summer seasons of 1948-2018 was reported for the Korean coast and considered to be caused by the changes …
over the last 30 years. Monogr. Environ. Earth Planets, 2: 1–22. Gamo, T., Nozaki, Y., Sakai, H., Nakai …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 14 February 2024 English
With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West’s …
Big tech will save us. Colonization of other planets, some say, will save us. The abolition of the …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 8 February 2024 English
For research institutions, the policy must first and foremost preserve and enhance the role these institutions play in society — namely, the preservation and proliferation of useful and trustworthy data …
distinguishing between current views on the movement of planets and Nicolaus Copernicus’s early writing on the …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 5 December 2023 English
After rigorous evaluation and review of their accomplishments, leading individuals may be elected to one of the Society’s three Academies—the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, …
fundamental questions related to how terrestrial planets and moons form and how their interiors function …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 28 November 2023 English
The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional level Fully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the why, the what, …
capacity. We currently consume at the rate of 1.75 planets on a global annual basis.52 If we at- tempted to … standards, we would require the equivalent of 8 planets.53 As World Resources Institute founder James …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 1 November 2023 English
After rigorous evaluation and review of their accomplishments, leading individuals may be elected to one of the Society’s three Academies—the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, …
fundamental questions related to how terrestrial planets and moons form and how their interiors function …
CFI: Canada Foundation for Innovation · 25 October 2023 English
In synergy with the research community, the support of government and the collaboration of research leaders in the federal granting agencies, universities, colleges, hospitals and other foundations, we will together …
reaches of interstellar space and the formation of planets. Thinking big for meaningful impact Innovation …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2023 English
take the harp, take / the Fitbit and the Band-Aid box. Fold the whole / grey sheet of sky, lumpy and unalluring / into your rucksack.A strong theme of journeys …
of sunsets, a violence she admires. What do planets do that we could emulate? Of course the circling … metallically colourful. But also a loneliness the planets don’t seem to mind, perhaps even prefer. Would …
