BOSTON â President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican congressional leaders of endangering the economy and Republican presidential candidates of undercutting American workers.OSTON â President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican congressional leaders of endangering the economy and Republican presidential candidates of undercutting American workers.
A dwarf star is a star of relatively small size and low luminosity. 1  Most main sequence stars are dwarf stars. The term was originally coined in 1906 when the Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung noticed that the reddest starsâclassified as K and M in the Harvard scheme could be divided into two distinct groups.
A: A dwarf planet is a term generally used to describe any planet that is smaller than Mercury. Note that the term dwarf planet is simply a descriptive category and not an IAU definition. Terms such as terrestrial planets and giant planets are additional examples of descriptive categories that are not IAU definitions.