Screen LibraryIs Pluto a planet?：a historical journey through the solar system
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 254 p.: ill., facsims. ; 24 cm. |
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0691123489 (hbk.) 9780691123486 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | P185 |
| CLC: | P185.6 |
| Call Number: | P185.6/W424 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248) and index. 1. What is a planet? -- 2. Seven perfect planets made of aether -- 3. The Earth becomes a planet -- 4. Sixteen planets -- 5. Not everything that orbits the Sun is a planet -- 6. Uranus! -- 7. The celestial police -- 8. Neptune, the thirteenth 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. |