Is Pluto a planet? a historical journey through the solar system
Chronicles the history of "planethood," tracing the evolution of our definition of planets and the debates over that definition as our knowledge of the universe and the bodies that inhabit it has grown. Chronicles the current state of those debates which have been fueled by the discovery of 2003 UB3...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Is Pluto a planet? : |b a historical journey through the solar system / |c David A. Weintraub. |
| 260 | |a Princeton, USA |b Princeton University Press |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a 272 pages |b 65 halftones. 7 line illustrations 1 table |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. What is a planet? -- 2. Seven perfect planets made from aether -- 3. The Earth becomes a planet -- 4. Sixteen planets -- 5. Not everything that orbits the Sun is a planet -- 9. Easy come, easy go -- 10. Pluto, the fourth ninth planet -- 11. Hidden secrets of the outer solar system -- 12. The plutinos -- 13. Is Pluto a planet? -- 14. Goldilocks -- Postscript. Current thoughts by other astronomers -- Appendix. What we know about Pluto. | |
| 520 | |a Chronicles the history of "planethood," tracing the evolution of our definition of planets and the debates over that definition as our knowledge of the universe and the bodies that inhabit it has grown. Chronicles the current state of those debates which have been fueled by the discovery of 2003 UB313, an outer solar system object which is thought to be slightly larger than Pluto, thus destabilizing Pluto's status as a planet and calling into question our definition of planets in general. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Planets. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Solar system. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Pluto (Dwarf planet) | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Local author. | |
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