Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System

Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System von Stern S. Alan (Autor) und Stern Alan S. (Autor) und Mitton Jacqueline (Autor)

Autor: Stern, S. Alan

Autor: Stern, Alan S.

Autor: Mitton, Jacqueline

Verleger: John Wiley & Sons

Genre: Hardcover/Astronomie

ISBN: 0471152978

EAN/ISBN-13: 9780471152972

Sprache: eng

Veröffentlichung: November 1997


 
 
Klappentext zu Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System
Despite our growing understanding of Pluto and its moon Charon, there have not been any books written on them since 1981, when Clyde Tombaugh's book was published in honor of the 50th anniversary of Pluto's discovery. Now, Pluto and Charon tells the story of the most distant planet of the solar system and its moon. It starts with the discovery of Pluto in 1930 and culminates with observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1996.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
New Frontier; First Facts; A Distant Dance; Another Snow; Building a Binary Planet; Icefields and Ice Dwarfs; Everest; Postscript: Where No One Has Gone Before; A Chronology of Major Events in the Exploration of Pluto; Suggested Readings.

Über den Autor: Stern S. Alan (Autor) und Stern Alan S. (Autor) und Mitton Jacqueline (Autor)
ALAN STERN, PhD, is a planetary scientist and astrophysicist with both observational and theoretical interests. Dr. Stern is an avid pilot and a principal investigator in NASA's planetary research program, and he was a finalist candidate to become a NASA space shuttle mission specialist. He is the leader of the Southwest Research Institute's Geophysical, Astrophysical, and Planetary Science group, located in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Stern has published more than 110 technical papers and 20 popular articles. His research has focused on studies of the satellites of the outer planets, Pluto, comets, the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt, and the search for evidence of solar systems around other stars.JACQUELINE MITTON, PhD, lives and works in Cambridge, England. She trained as an astronomer at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and has for many years concentrated on bringing astronomy to the general public, mainly as a writer, and through the media in her role as Public Relations Officer for the Royal Astronomical Society. She is a former editor of the Journal of the British Astronomical Association and the author, coauthor, or contributing editor of 12 previous books, including The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy, Gems of Hubble, and The Great Comet Crash.

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