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2010. Publication place. United States. ISBN. 0-385-53108-7. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the 2010 memoir by Mike Brown, the American astronomer most responsible for the reclassification of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. [1] [2]
- Michael E. Brown
- 2010
Dec 7, 2010 · 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 ...
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Jan 24, 2012 · How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming. Paperback – January 24, 2012. 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.
- 2010
- Michael E. Brown
About How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming. 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.
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Praise for How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming "Brown’s brisk, enjoyable How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming chronicles the whole saga [of the demotion of Pluto] and, in the process, makes Pluto’s sad fate easier to take. If we’ve lost a planet, we’ve gained a sprightly new voice for popular science…Writing with an appealing wit, Mr. Brown resists the glibness to which science popularizations sometimes fall prey.
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How I Killed Pluto and why it Had it Coming. Mike Brown. Spiegel & Grau, 2010 - Science - 267 pages. 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.
The Man Who Made Pluto Vanish, Wall Street Journal. "Mr. Brown's brisk, enjoyable How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming chronicles the whole saga and, in the process, makes Pluto's sad fate easier to take. If we've lost a planet, we've gained a sprightly new voice for popular science." -- James Kennedy, author of The Order of Odd-Fish.
