Two years ago, the International Astronomical Union decreed that Pluto was no longer a planet, but a member of a new category known as dwarf planets, bodies that were large enough to be round, but which did not gravitationally dominate their orbital neighborhoods.
Vesta (a volatile-depleted body), largely recognized as the source of the howardite eucrite diogenite (HED) meteorites, thought to be the result of collisions of several proto-planet bodies with Vesta (Burbine et al. 2001).
And in both cases, our bodies and the planet's body, those tiny creatures are becoming extinct at an alarming rate.
After my Englishman left this planet, my body decided to give up walking.
3 High-Impact Actions that Can Cut Your "Foodprint" in Half 1. Choose plant-based foods often for a healthy planet, healthy body.
We are also like its chemotherapy, taking our planet's body, and all its beautiful systems, including our own, to the brink of destruction.
It tells you something about how they feel about the planet, their bodies, their communities and their children.
Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name "planet" for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. "They should call them 'planetary-mass brown dwarfs,' " Boss says.
************ Like the planet, our bodies are made up mostly of 70-75% water.
