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Weintraub Is Pluto a Planet?
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A Historical Journey through the Solar System
E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5297-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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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




