Discovering Pluto
exploration at the edge of the solar system
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Author
Contributions
- Sheehan, William, 1954- author - Contributor
Publication
2018 - The University of Arizona Press, Arizona
Language
English
Word Count
118,750 words, Guess
Page Count
475 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100816534314
- ISBN-139780816534319
- Library of Congress Control Number2017047625
- OCLC Control Number1010699695
- Better World Books9780816534319
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26959763M
Classifications
- DDC523.49/22
- LCCQB701 .C78 2018
- LCCQB701.C78 2018
Description
"Discovering Pluto is an authoritative account of the exploration of Pluto and its moons from the first inklings of tentative knowledge through the exciting discoveries made during the flyby of the NASA New Horizons research spacecraft in July 2015. Co-author Dale P. Cruikshank was a co-investigator on the New Horizons mission, while co-author William Sheehan is a noted historian of the Solar System. Telling the tale of Pluto's discovery, the authors recount the grand story of our unfolding knowledge of the outer Solar System, from William Herschel's serendipitous discover of Uranus in 1781, to the 1846 mathematical prediction of Neptune's existence, to Percival Lowell's studies of the wayward motions of those giant planets leading to his prediction of another world farther out."--Dust jacket flap.
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