Pluto Charon - Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System. Second Edtion - Completely Revised Updated.
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Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition. A+ Customer Service! Summary: Preface to the Second Edition.Preface to the First Edition.Prologue: Encounter!1. New Frontier.A Planet Hunt."Young Man, I Am Afraid You Are Wasting Your Time."That's It!"But What to Call It?Pathways of the Gods.Empty of Empties.It's a Rogue!2. First Facts.The Dark Ages.Shimmer, Little Planet.The Pulse of a Planet's Brightness.A Cockeyed World.Reading the Rainbow.Pluto's Own Signature.A Rose, By Any Other Name.Fellow Traveler.Harvest: 1978.3. A Distant Dance.The Gift of a Swede.The Dance, Dissected.Searching for Shadows.Tally Ho Shadow!Glimpsing the Treasure Trove.When Seconds Equal Centimeters: Measuring Pluto's Size.Bounty.He and She.The Face of Pluto.4. The Importance of Snow.The Low Roads.A Clean Machine: The Road Less Trveled.The High Road, At Last.Mining the Occulation Data.Smoke? Or Mirrors?Taking Pluto's Temperature.Something So Familiar.Hot Spots on a Cold World.The Fate of Pluto's Atmosphere: Future Tense.5. Building a Binary Planet.A Grand Design.Before.Building Planets from Plantetesimals.Winds of Change.Mother Violence.A Misfit's Role.The Faint Smell of a Fish.Big Bangs.Lost Flock.6. Ice Fields and Ice Dwarfs.Where Have All the Pluto's Gone?The Edge.The Hunters.Enter Smiley.Pluto's Kin.Meet the Plutinos.The Meaning of Missing Mass.Hindsight 20/20: Lo, the Misfit Fits.7. Everest.Cradle Vista .An Ornament Against the Deep.On Being There.A Gathering, a Start.Manna, From Triton.First Ascent.Tick, Tick, Tick.Onward, Upward.Form and Function Combined.Some Trouble with the Ticket.Expresso.8. New Horizons.A Final Faltering.We Are the Undead.A Reincarnation.The Undead Never Blink.New Horizons, Indeed.Light My Fire.9. Where No One Has Gone Before.Then I Saw Her Face.Appendix: A Chronology of Major Events in the Exploration of Pluto.Notes.Index.

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astronomy,astronomy and space science,comets meteors and asteroids,science,science and math,science and technology,solar system, Rave reviews for Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System The story of the quest to understand Pluto and the resulting transformation of our concept of the diminutive planet from that of solar-system misfit to king of the Kuiper Belt is told in this book by Alan Stern and Jacqueline Mitton. Stern, a Plutophile to the core, is one of the most energetic, talented, and savvy planetary astronomers in the business today. Mitton, trained as an astronomer, is an experienced writer and editor of scientific books for nonscientists. Together they have created an immensely informative book . . . Written in an engaging and informal style, Pluto and Charon takes the reader step by step from the discovery of the ninth planet in 1930 to the current understanding of Pluto and its moon, Charon.-Sky & Telescope More than a book summarizing what we know about [the] planet, [Pluto and Charon is] about how far and how fast astronomical technology has come since 1965 . . . Stern and Mitton use the narrative of Pluto research to explain in comfortable, everyday language how such work is done . . . One of the nice touches in the book is that Stern and Mitton tell us something about each astronomer.-Astronomy Pluto and Charon presents the exploration of the ninth planet-written as a vivid historical account-for anyone with an interest in science and astronomy . . . the authors describe in simple language the methods researchers use to explore the univers.

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astronomy,astronomy and space science,comets meteors and asteroids,science,science and math,science and scientists,science and technology,solar system, Rave reviews for Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System The story of the quest to understand Pluto and the resulting transformation of our concept of the diminutive planet from that of solar-system misfit to king of the Kuiper Belt is told in this book by Alan Stern and Jacqueline Mitton. Stern, a Plutophile to the core, is one of the most energetic, talented, and savvy planetary astronomers in the business today. Mitton, trained as an astronomer, is an experienced writer and editor of scientific books for nonscientists. Together they have created an immensely informative book . . . Written in an engaging and informal style, Pluto and Charon takes the reader step by step from the discovery of the ninth planet in 1930 to the current understanding of Pluto and its moon, Charon.-Sky & Telescope More than a book summarizing what we know about [the] planet, [Pluto and Charon is] about how far and how fast astronomical technology has come since 1965 . . . Stern and Mitton use the narrative of Pluto research to explain in comfortable, everyday language how such work is done . . . One of the nice touches in the book is that Stern and Mitton tell us something about each astronomer.-Astronomy Pluto and Charon presents the exploration of the ninth planet-written as a vivid historical account-for anyone with an interest in science and astronomy . . . the authors describe in simple language the methods researchers use to explore the univers.

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astronomy,astronomy and space science,astrophysics and space science,comets meteors and asteroids,cosmology,physics,science and math,solar system, Rave reviews for Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System The story of the quest to understand Pluto and the resulting transformation of our concept of the diminutive planet from that of solar-system misfit to king of the Kuiper Belt is told in this book by Alan Stern and Jacqueline Mitton. Stern, a Plutophile to the core, is one of the most energetic, talented, and savvy planetary astronomers in the business today. Mitton, trained as an astronomer, is an experienced writer and editor of scientific books for nonscientists. Together they have created an immensely informative book . . . Written in an engaging and informal style, Pluto and Charon takes the reader step by step from the discovery of the ninth planet in 1930 to the current understanding of Pluto and its moon, Charon.-Sky & Telescope More than a book summarizing what we know about [the] planet, [Pluto and Charon is] about how far and how fast astronomical technology has come since 1965 . . . Stern and Mitton use the narrative of Pluto research to explain in comfortable, everyday language how such work is done . . . One of the nice touches in the book is that Stern and Mitton tell us something about each astronomer.-Astronomy Pluto and Charon presents the exploration of the ninth planet-written as a vivid historical account-for anyone with an interest in science and astronomy . . . the authors describe in simple language the methods researchers use to explore the univers.

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Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System Stern, Alan / Mitton, Jacqueline, The exploration of the ninth planet, Pluto, its moon, Charon, and their relationship to the newly discovered Kuiper Belt, is a tale of perseverance, ingenuity and dedication on the part of the planetary scientists who have been lured by the fascination of these far-flung miniature worlds. In Pluto and Charon, Alan Stern and Jacqueline Mitton turn that story into an entertaining adventure, starting with the discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. In a highly accessible narrative, they bring to life the many 'Plutophiles', who with skill and resourcefulness have pieced together over several decades an amazingly detailed picture of the nature of Pluto and Charon. The book also documents vividly the struggle by Plutophiles and the public to persuade NASA to fund a mission to Pluto, the only planet not yet explored from close proximity by a spacecraft. Hopes were alternately raised and dashed before eventual victory. At last, New Horizons (led by author Stern as Principal Investigator) is due to be launched in early 2006 on a 9-year journey to Pluto, Charon and beyond. For this second edition, Stern and Mitton have brought their 1998 book fully up to date, including the latest discoveries about Pluto's ancient relationship with the members of the Kuiper Belt of icy bodies and dwarf planets beyond Neptune. They have also added a completely new chapter on the New Horizons mission.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Monroe Street Books.
US: Wiley-VCH, 1999-09-03. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 216 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 463484.

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Pluto-and-Charon~~Alan-Stern, Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System, Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Zane W. Gray BOOKSELLERS.
Wiley. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1999. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 0471353841 . Atomic absorption spectroscopy .

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