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Discovering Pluto: Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System
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Artikel-Nr:
9780816539383
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.01.2019
Seiten:
504
Autor:
Dale P. Cruikshank
Gewicht:
679 g
Format:
228x153x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dale P. Cruikshank is an astronomer and planetary scientist in the Astrophysics Branch at NASA Ames Research Center. His research specialties are spectroscopy and radiometry of planets and small bodies in the Solar System, such as comets, asteroids, planetary satellites, dwarf planets, and other objects beyond Neptune. In 2006 he received the Kuiper Prize of the Division for Planetary Sciences. William Sheehan is a historian of astronomy and psychiatrist. His many books include Planets and Perception, Worlds in the Sky, and The Planet Mars, also published by the University of Arizona Press. Asteroid No. 16037 was named in his honor.
Offers an authoritative account of the exploration of Pluto and its moons, from the first inklings of tentative knowledge through the exciting discoveries made during the flyby of the NASA New Horizons research spacecraft in 2015. Dale Cruikshank was a co-investigator on the New Horizons mission; William Sheehan is an historian of the Solar System.