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Author:

Cruikshank, Dale P., author.

Title:

Discovering Pluto : exploration at the edge of the solar system / Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan.

Publisher:

The University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Pluto (Dwarf planet)
Pluto.

Other Authors:

Sheehan, William, 1954- author.

Notes:

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.

Summary:

The story of Pluto and its largest moon, from discovery through the New Horizons flyby--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0816534314
9780816534319

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1010699695

LCCN:

2017047625

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)