comets do their best to avoid adhering to the classic Solar System models

Tags: comets, interplanetary dust particles, Solar System
Categories: Pseudo-explanations

Examples of anthropomorphism in popular science writing:

"What scientists are finding out is that IDPs [interplanetary dust particles] really are teaching them that that comets are doing their best to avoid adhering to the classic Solar System models."

Natalie Starkey

Starkey, N. (2018). Catching Stardust. Comets, asteroids and the birth of the solar system. Bloomsbury Sigma.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.