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Is Pluto a Planet? : A Historical Journey through the Solar System /
A Note from the Author: On August 24, 2006, at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, by a majority vote of only the 424 members present, the IAU (an organization of over 10,000 members) passed a resolution defining planet in such a way as to exclude Pluto...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Is Pluto a Planet? : |b A Historical Journey through the Solar System / |c David A. Weintraub. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Princeton, New Jersey : |b Princeton University Press, |c 2007. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2016 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2007. | |
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| 500 | |a "With a new postscript by the author." | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a A Note from the Author: On August 24, 2006, at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, by a majority vote of only the 424 members present, the IAU (an organization of over 10,000 members) passed a resolution defining planet in such a way as to exclude Pluto and established a new class of objects in the solar system to be called ""dwarf planets, "" which was deliberately designed to include Pluto. With the discovery of Eris (2003 UB313)--an outer solar system object thought to be both slightly larger than Pluto and twice as far from the Sun--astrono. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 6 | |a Planetes. | |
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| 651 | 6 | |a Pluton (Planete naine) | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Systeme solaire. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Pluto (Dwarf planet) | |
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