Weintraub Is Pluto a Planet?

A Historical Journey through the Solar System
With a New postscript by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5297-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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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.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weintraub, David A.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE ix

Chapter 1: What Is a Planet? 1

Chapter 2: Seven Perfect Planets Made of Aether 6

Chapter 3: The Earth Becomes a Planet 36

Chapter 4: Sixteen Planets 59

Chapter 5: Not Everything That Orbits the Sun Is a Planet 71

Chapter 6: Uranus! 82

Chapter 7: The Celestial Police 95

Chapter 8: Neptune, the Thirteenth Planet 107

Chapter 9: Easy Come, Easy Go 121

Chapter 10: Pluto, the Fourth Ninth Planet 130

Chapter 11: Hidden Secrets of the Outer Solar System 148

Chapter 12: The Plutinos 167

Chapter 13: Is Pluto a Planet? 179

Chapter 14: Goldilocks 185

POSTSCRIPT: Current Thoughts by Other Astronomers 222

APPENDIX: What We Know about Pluto 232

NOTES 243

INDEX 249

Über Autor(innen)

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.