| Description |
xiv, 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
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Gender group: gdr Men lcdgt |
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Cruikshank: Occupational/field of activity group: occ Astronomers lcdgt |
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Cruikshank: Occupational/field of activity group: occ Planetary scientists lcdgt |
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Sheehan: Occupational/field of activity group: occ Historians lcdgt |
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Sheehan: Occupational/field of activity group: occ Psychiatrists lcdgt |
| Summary |
The story of Pluto and its largest moon, from discovery through the New Horizons flyby--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-463) and index. |
| Contents |
Twenty-Seven Years and Three Billion Miles -- A New Planet -- Gaps -- "With the Tip of a Pen" -- Post-Discovery Controversies -- The Search for Planet X -- Clyde's Planet -- Planetary Astronomy -- Planetary Science, New Technology, and the Discovery of Ice -- Whence the Ices? Chemistry in the Solar System -- Icy Earth and Beyond -- Why Ice on Pluto Matters -- New Discoveries and a New Paradigm -- Ices Predict an Atmosphere -- Surprise! A Moon Is Found -- More Than Ice : Some Extraordinary Chemistry -- Genesis of a Flight to Pluto -- The Flight of New Horizons -- Pluto and Charon : Marvelous Worlds -- On to the Kuiper Belt -- Appendix 1. The New Horizons Science Team -- Appendix 2. The New Horizons Spacecraft. |
| Subject |
Pluto (Dwarf planet)
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Pluto (Dwarf planet) (OCoLC)fst01710146
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Pluto. (DE-588)4198981-8
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| Added Author |
Sheehan, William, 1954- author.
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| ISBN |
9780816534319 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0816534314 hardcover alkaline paper |
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