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 o...
| Main Author: | Weintraub, David A. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, USA
Princeton University Press
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.