The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009AM2OJE
Publish date: July 12th 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 194
Edition language: English
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet covers Pluto’s discovery, the controversy over whether it should be called a planet, and the IAU’s (International Astronomical Union) decision to call it a dwarf planet. It is amusing that their definition for planet references the Sun,...
Here's a topic that isn't often covered: how museums design their exhibits. You know what else isn't often covered: how science happens. There are myriad books about discoverers and discoveries, and many about new fields as they develop. But this is the only time I can recall reading a book on the e...
fast read clear and easy to understand , that is doctor Neil in this book , I see him as Galileo of this era , just one simple idea here, that Science has nothing to do with emotions and nations , its true whether we like it or not , so please people leave poor Pluto alone .
I wasn't knocked out by the narration on this one, and it really isn't a book one needs to read twice. I adore Tyson, and I think that if he's going to have audio book versions of his works, he should read them himself- his delivery is, forgive me, stellar. The first time through I liked it much be...
This book is a summary of the recent kerfuffle and hoopla over the status of Pluto. There is an excellent history of Pluto, from Planet X (and why that was important) to the diminishing size of Pluto to it's eventual classification as a Kuiper Belt Object. There are also excerpts from humorous (and ...
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