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Is Pluto a Planet?: A Historical Journey through the Solar System
David A. Weintraub
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| #3014757 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2006-11-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .87 x6.42 x9.40l,1.29 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| The Long View|By Don R. Lago|"Is Pluto a Planet?" provides valuable historical context for the recent IAU decision to demote Pluto from planet status. The book's main point is that the progress of astronomy has forced several previous mutations in our definition of 'planet'. Several times newly-found objects have been accepted as planets, until it was realized they were jus|From Publishers Weekly|Earlier this year, when astronomers officially "demoted" Pluto from its status as the ninth planet in our solar system, they little expected the public rancor that followed the decision. Vanderbilt astronomer Weintraub places the Pluto con
A Note from the Author: On August 24, 2006, at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, by a majority vote of only the 424 members present, the IAU (an organization of over 10,000 members) passed a resolution defining planet in such a way as to exclude Pluto and established a new class of objects in the solar system to be called "dwarf planets," which was deliberately designed to include Pluto.
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