Case for Pluto How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference

Name: Case for Pluto How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference
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ISBN: 9780470505441

ISBN-10: 0470505443

ISBN-13: 9780470505441

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alan Boyle

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In support of Pluto-the cutest and most unfairly treated planetPity poor Pluto: it's a planet that was discovered because of a mistake, a planet that turned out not to be a planet at all, thanks to a still-disputed decision made in 2006.And yet, Pluto is the planet best-loved by Americans, especially children, one that may have contained the building blocks of life billions of years ago and may well serve as life's last redoubt billions of years from now.In The Case for Pluto, award-winning science writer Alan Boyle traces the tiny planet's ups and downs, its strange appeal, the reasons behind its demotion and the reasons why it should be set back in the planetary pantheon. Tells the…

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 11/6/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Planet in the Cornfield



Fellow Wanderers



The Search for Planet X



Pluto and Its Little Pals



The Meaning of a Moon



There Goes the Neighborhood



Not Yet Explored



Betting on the Tenth Planet



The Battle of Prague



The Lighter Side of Pluto



1 The Great Planet Debate



The Day of the Dwarfs



Planet X Redux



Alien Plutos



The Case for Pluto



What to Tell Your Kids about Planets



The International Astronomical Union's Resolutions and Revisions



Planetary Vital Statistics


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Credits


Index