Sentence examples for planetary definition from inspiring English sources

The second change was a redrawing of the planetary definition in the case of a double planet system.

Later on August 22, two open meetings were held which ended in an abrupt about-face on the basic planetary definition.

Following a reversion to the previous rules on 15 August, as a planetary definition is a primarily scientific matter, every individual member of the Union attending the Assembly was eligible to vote.

Given that global warming is, by definition, global — i.e. planetary — and, apparently, urgent, it wouldn't seem crazy to think that it ought always to be in evidence.

Even some early devotees of a system of tradable emissions permits believe that it will not work for carbon dioxide, by definition a planetary problem.

To our knowledge, there is more ambiguity concerning its definition for planetary mixers especially when they have dual motion (around two perpendicular axes) to achieve homogenization.

This definition is based in theories of planetary formation, in which planetary embryos initially clear their orbital neighborhood of other smaller objects.

By definition, all planets are planetary-mass objects, but the purpose of this term is to refer to objects that do not conform to typical expectations for a planet.

It proposed three definitions that could be adopted: Another committee, chaired by a historian of astronomy, Owen Gingerich, a historian and astronomer emeritus at Harvard University who led the committee which generated the original definition, and consisting of five planetary scientists and the science writer Dava Sobel, was set up to make a firm proposal.

Porco called on other scientists on the panel to come up with a "working definition" of life that could give planetary scientists guidance as to what else they should look for.

This definition also makes no comment on the planetary status of objects orbiting brown dwarfs, such as 2M1207b.