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Is Pluto a planet?: a historical journey through the solar system
Is Pluto a planet?: a historical journey through the solar system
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Weintraub, David A. (David Andrew)
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication Date
[2007]
Language
English
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1. What is a planet?
2. Seven perfect planets made of aether
3. The Earth becomes a planet
4. Sixteen planets
5. Not everything that orbits the Sun is a planet
6. Uranus!
7. The celestial police
8. Neptune, the thirteenth planet
9. Easy come, easy go
10. Pluto, the fourth ninth planet
11. Hidden secrets of the outer solar system
12. The plutinos
13. Is Pluto a planet?
14. Goldilocks
Postscript. Current thoughts by other astronomers
Appendix. What we know about Pluto.
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Planeten
Planets
Pluto (Dwarf planet)
Pluto (dwergplaneet)
Pluto (planet)
Science & Technology
Solar system
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Weintraub, David A.
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9780691123486
9781400852970
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