planetographer
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From planet + -o- + -grapher, perhaps modelled off of cartographer.
Noun[edit]
planetographer (plural planetographers)
- (chiefly science fiction) Someone who studies planetography ("the branch of astronomy concerned with the description of the physical features of planets").
- 2008, Charles Stross, Saturn's Children: A Space Opera, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 269:
- In the century-plus since Eris was settled, we have already raised the temperature of its lithosphere by several degrees, just as we've thickened the atmosphere ot Callisto a thousandfold: if this goes on, the more annoyingly farsighted planetographers warn, we can look forward to an increased incidence ot icequakes and the threat of a year-round atmosphere.
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References[edit]
- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “planetographer, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.