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Is Pluto a planet? : a historical journey through the solar system

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Is Pluto a planet? : a historical journey through the solar system / David A. Weintraub.

Author

Weintraub, David A. (David Andrew), 1958-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.

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Description

ix, 254 p. : ill., facsims.; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248) and index.

Contents

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.

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