Dale P. Cruikshank, William Sheehan

Gebundenes Buch

Discovering Pluto: Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System

Beschreibung

In Discovering Pluto, Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan recount the grand story of our unfolding knowledge and exploration of Pluto, its moons, and the outer Solar System. They explain the efforts of scientists, mathematicians, and researchers over the centuries to understand the outer Solar System, leading to the discovery and detailed exploration of Pluto as the premier body in the Kuiper Belt, the so-called third zone of our Solar System.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780816534319
• ISBN-10: 0816534314
• Artikelnr.: 50106690