Is Pluto a Planet? : : A Historical Journey through the Solar System / / David A. Weintraub.
A Note from the Author: On August 24, 2006, at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, by a majority vote of only the 424 members present, the IAU (an organization of over 10,000 members) passed a resolution defining planet in such a way as to exclude Pluto...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | With a New postscript by the author |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 65 halftones. 7 line illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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
- 2006 Postscript. Current Thoughts by Other Astronomers
- 2008 Postscript. The Post-2006 Status of Pluto
- Appendix. What We Know about Pluto
- Notes
- Index