The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet - Couverture souple

DeGrasse Tyson, Neil

 
9780393337327: The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0393337324 ISBN 13 : 9780393337327
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2009

Synopsis

When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, “Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York.” Immediately, the public, professionals, and press were choosing sides over Pluto’s planethood. Pluto is entrenched in our cultural and emotional view of the cosmos, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, award-winning author and director of the Rose Center, is on a quest to discover why. He stood at the heart of the controversy over Pluto’s demotion, and consequently Plutophiles have freely shared their opinions with him, including endless hate mail from third-graders. With his inimitable wit, Tyson delivers a minihistory of planets, describes the oversized characters of the people who study them, and recounts how America's favorite planet was ousted from the cosmic hub.

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À propos de l?auteur

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Times best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. He lives in New York City.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393337324
ISBN 13 
9780393337327
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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