Is Pluto a planet?
Subtitle: a historical journey through the solar system
By: David A. Weintraub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780691123486
Subjects: Planets; Solar system; Pluto (Dwarf planet)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. What is a planet?; title: 2. Seven perfect planets made of aether; title: 3. The Earth becomes a planet; title: 4. Sixteen planets; title: 5. Not everything that orbits the Sun is a planet; title: 6. Uranus!; title: 7. The celestial police; title: 8. Neptune, the thirteenth planet; title: 9. Easy come, easy go; title: 10. Pluto, the fourth ninth planet; title: 11. Hidden secrets of the outer solar system; title: 12. The plutinos; title: 13. Is Pluto a planet?; title: 14. Goldilocks; title: Postscript. Current thoughts by other astronomers; title: Appendix. What we know about Pluto