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Brown, Mike
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Fiction
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2010
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Random House Publishing Group
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en-US
β 326 KB
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It had it Coming
β Scribed by How I Killed Pluto;Why It Had It Coming
- Book ID
- 106977579
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385531092
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β¦ Synopsis
The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of its resulting in one more planet being added to our solar system, Brown's find ignited a firestorm of controversy that riled the usually sedate world of astronomy and launched him into the public eye. The debate culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of "dwarf" planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters--all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about.
Filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is Mike Brown's engaging first-person account of the most tumultuous year in modern astronomy--which he inadvertently caused. As it...
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