planetographers

Noun

planetographer (plural planetographers)

1. Someone who studies planetography ("the branch of astronomy concerned with the description of the physical features of planets").
   • 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...2008, Charles Stross, Saturn's Children: A Space Opera, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 269