Pluto and the dwarf planets
""Presents facts about the composition, atmosphere, and history of exploration of Pluto and other dwarf planets and features large illustrations and photographs."--
| Main Author: | Carrigan, Mellonee (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
World Book, Inc.,
[2020]
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| Series: |
Our solar system (World Book, Inc.)
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Table of Contents:
- Not quite big enough
- Meet the dwarf planets
- Locating the dwarf planets
- Smaller than the Earth's moon
- Ice and rock
- King of the Kuiper Belt
- A blurry, reddish disk
- Pluto and the sun
- Pluto and Earth
- The coldest place
- Pluto's double
- Pluto's other moons
- Exploring Pluto
- About Ceres
- Ceres and Earth
- Discovering Ceres
- A dark, cratered place
- Ceres's bright spots
- Studying Ceres
- Distant Eris
- Shining bright in the solar system
- Eris and Earth
- Eris's tiny moon
- About Makemake
- About Haumea
- Two moons and a ring
- Beyond Neptune : the Kuiper Belt
- Beyond Pluto.