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 BentStar  Send message Joined: 20 Mar 04 Posts: 69 Credit: 126,979 RAC: 0 
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Top scientists and educators will convene in Maryland this summer to explore a basic, but controversial, question: What is a planet? The Great Planet Debate (GPD) conference includes two days (August 14-15) of scientific sessions to discuss and debate the processes leading to planet formation and the characteristics and criteria used to define and categorize planets. An educator's workshop follows on the third day (August 16th) to provide a forum on how the planet debate can be used to spark scientific inquiry in the classroom. An open-to-the-public debate between Dr. Mark Sykes of the Planetary Science Institute and Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson of the American Museum of Natural History will start at 4:30 pm EDT on August 14th. The debate, which will be moderated by Ira Flatow, the host of Science Friday on National Public Radio, is free to everyone and will be streamed live on the web. http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/ ID: 796881 ·  |
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