| TITLE: |
Is Pluto a planet? : a historical journey through the solar system / David A. Weintraub. |
| AUTHOR: |
Weintraub, David A. (David Andrew), 1958- |
| PUBLISHED: |
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
ix, 254 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248) and index. |
| NOTES: |
1. What is a planet? -- 2. Seven perfect planets made of aether -- 3. The Earth becomes a planet -- 4. Sixteen planets -- |
| NOTES: |
5. Not everything that orbits the Sun is a planet -- 6. Uranus! -- 7. The celestial police -- 8. Neptune, the thirteenth planet -- |
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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? -- |
| NOTES: |
14. Goldilocks --Postscript. Current thoughts by other astronomers -- |
| NOTES: |
Appendix. What we know about Pluto. |
| SUBJECT: |
Planets. |
| SUBJECT: |
Solar system. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Pluto (Dwarf planet) |
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