by Mike Brown
Amusing. Normally I don't like it when authors bring personal stories into their work, and I was critical of this at the beginning, but Mike Brown did literally make me laugh out loud [kitty litter in washing machine], so...Plus there were some details about the back story of the discovery-scooping...
Even if Pluto is was your favorite planet (after all, it was named after a cartoon dog!) you will be charmed by this account of a scientists' life and work. From this writing Mike Brown obviously has communication skills which I'm sure makes him a popular instructor and lecturer at Caltech. This ...
This book is precisely what I was looking for in a book about Pluto. It contains all the depth of information that The Pluto Files was missing but still had a narrative voice I enjoyed even more than either of the other books. From the story of the narrator's experiences trying to write papers wh...
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Have you every wondered how Pluto got kicked out of the Planetary Club? Mike Brown shares the story of how his discovery of other objects in the further reaches of the solar system got Pluto demoted.Overall, I enjoyed this story. Dr. Brown is obviously a scientist, and his memoir has that little b...
I'd shelf this as inherent-sadness-of-being-a-Kuiper-belt-object, but that might be too esoteric even for me.Much more skullduggery and international astronomical intrigue than expected for a book about rocks 12 billion miles away too. One can't help but feel bad for Pluto, of course, but it was pro...
This is perhaps the most entertaining book on astronomy I've ever read. I hesitate to even call it a science book. While there is lots of information on our solar system that I didn't even know, this is more of a personal journey for the author, chronicling his victories and his frustrations in his ...
Mike Brown tells an engaging story about how he and his colleagues at Caltech discovered a series of Pluto-like objects at the fringe of the solar system that ultimately cast doubt on Pluto's status as a planet. When Pluto was discovered in 1930 it was declared a planet based on the best science of...
I really enjoyed it, should be 4.5, just not quite 5 stars. Would like to find more books like this, too many of the non-fiction I try to read are disappointing.
I, someone who never wins anything, just won a copy of this book. How cool is that? Look forward to reading it and real review to follow. whoohoo!
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