The IAU’s Ruling

The International Astronomical Union’s Ruling Consider the new rules for planets that lessened our number of planets to eight, demoting Pluto, due to new format about how a planet must astrogate. Though Pluto has enough mass to be round, and orbits uniquely about our Sun, it fails (as its path has “clutter” around) at planetary […]

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Defining Trait

We used to think it was our ability to use tools or the elegance of our reasoning or the architecture of opposable thumbs or brain size.
Maybe we need a new criteria to define our intelligence and what makes it distinct from other species on our planet.

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MIRI, MIRI ON L2

THE IMAGERY OF IMAGES
This haiku to MIRI (Mid InfraRed Imager) begins of a new era, commemorating in enraptured ekphrasistic poetry the wonders NASA shares in their ever-improving, cosmic images.

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