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IBEX
Published on 3 Oct 2008 at 3:02 pm.
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Filed under solar system, space exploration.
In biology, an ibex is a type of wild goat. But, that is not what I am writing about here. Rather, I am writing about NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Mission, set to launch in just over two weeks, on October 19 by a Pegasus rocket. IBEX is the latest […]
Plutoids
Published on 11 Jun 2008 at 12:40 pm.
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Filed under planets, solar system.
We have yet another new word to describe some of the things out there beyond Neptune: Plutoids. As you may recall, a couple of years ago, the International Astronomical Union finally defined the word “planet.” It was something of a shock to many people in the public, but astronomers had never actually […]
