Vaguely analogous to grains of green Hawaiian beach sand, chondrules are arguably the glue needed to make planets like ours.

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Astrologers, who use dates and times and the movement of the planets to make their prophecies, are especially annoyed.

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Space promoters tell us, once every few months, that there are signs that there might be or has been water on one of the planets that might make "life" possible.

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Scientists are eager to examine the asteroids because they formed in the same primordial cloud of gas and stellar material that collapsed to make the sun and the planets about 4.5 billion years ago.

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The resolution does make Pluto one of a number of dwarf planets, which confusingly are not officially planets.

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The ultimate goal, of course, is to let astronomers make a plausible estimate of the total number of planets in the galaxy, of the number that could conceivably support life, and of the fraction of those that could (at least in theory) sustain human colonists.

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And in terms of, in terms of the future, two things to conclude, one, when I talked to Billy Graham he had, last, he had questions that he wanted, that he was puzzled by that he admitted he didn't know everything, that he wanted to ask God when he got to Heaven, one was, whether there was life on other planets and another was why did he make Satan so strong.

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Even though the suite of instruments for the E-ELT has yet to be finalized, ESO astronomer Joe Liske says the telescope will make observing time for cosmology, nearby galaxies, solar system studies and the burgeoning list of planets now known to circle other stars.

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