num_pages: 208
description: When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet the New York Times proclaimed on page one Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York. Immediately the public professionals and press were choosing sides over Pluto's planethood. Pluto is entrenched in our cultural and emotional view of the cosmos and Neil deGrasse Tyson award-winning author and director of the Rose Center is on a quest to discover why. He stood at the heart of the controversy over Pluto's demotion and consequently Plutophiles have freely shared their opinions with him including endless hate mail from third-graders. With his inimitable wit Tyson delivers a minihistory of planets describes the oversized characters of the people who study them and recounts how America's favorite planet was ousted from the cosmic hub.
language: English
title: The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company