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Is Pluto a Planet?

Is Pluto a Planet?

A Historical Journey through the Solar System

David A. Weintraub

254 pages, parution le 04/12/2006

Résumé

With the discovery of 2003 UB313--an outer solar system object believed to be slightly larger than Pluto--astronomers have again been thrown into an age-old debate about what is and what is not a planet. One of many sizeable hunks of rock and ice in the Kuiper Belt, 2003 UB313 is more than twice as far from the Sun as Pluto. But Pluto itself has been subject to controversy since its discovery in 1930. Is it a planet? What exactly is a planet?

Is Pluto a Planet? tells the story of how the meaning of the word "planet" has changed from antiquity to the present day, as new objects in our solar system have been discovered. In lively, thoroughly accessible prose, David Weintraub provides the historical, philosophical, and astronomical background that allows us to decide for ourselves whether Pluto is indeed a planet.

The number of possible planets has ranged widely over the centuries, from five to seventeen. This book makes sense of it all--from the ancient Greeks' observation that some stars wander while others don't; to Copernicus, who made Earth a planet but rejected the Sun and the Moon; to the discoveries of comets, Uranus, Ceres, the asteroid belt, Neptune, Pluto, Centaurs, the Kuiper Belt and 2003 UB313, and extrasolar planets.

Weaving the history of our thinking about planets and cosmology into a single, remarkable story, Is Pluto a Planet? is for all those who seek a fuller understanding of the science surrounding both Pluto and the provocative recent discoveries in our outer solar system.

L'auteur - David A. Weintraub

David A. Weintraub is Professor of Astronomy at Vanderbilt University, which in 2003 honored him with the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Sommaire

  • Preface
  • What Is a Planet?
  • Seven Perfect Planets Made of Aether
  • The Earth Becomes a Planet
  • Sixteen Planets
  • Not Everything That Orbits the Sun Is a Planet
  • Uranus!
  • The Celestial Police
  • Neptune, the Thirteenth Planet
  • Easy Come, Easy Go
  • Pluto, the Fourth Ninth Planet
  • Hidden Secrets of the Outer Solar System
  • The Plutinos
  • Is Pluto a Planet?
  • Goldilocks
  • Postscript: Current Thoughts by Other Astronomers
  • Appendix: What We Know about Pluto
  • Notes
  • Index
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Éditeur(s) Princeton University Press
Auteur(s) David A. Weintraub
Parution 04/12/2006
Nb. de pages 254
Format 16 x 24
Couverture Relié
Poids 602g
Intérieur Noir et Blanc
EAN13 9780691123486
ISBN13 978-0-691-12348-6

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