The temperature of an object if it is reradiating all the thermal
energy that has been added to it; if an object is not a blackbody radiator,
it will not reradiate all the excess heat and the leftover will go toward
increasing its temperature.
American astronomer. One of the earliest American astronomers of note,
Bond rose from poverty and overcame a lack of formal education to become
the first director of the Harvard College Observatory. At the observatory, he studied Saturn and (with William Lassell) discovered its moon Hyperion.
The outermost part of a planetary
magnetosphere; the place where the
supersonic flow of the solar wind is slowed
to subsonic speed by the planetary magnetic field.
