Margaret Weitekamp, David Devorkin

Gebundenes Buch

Pluto's Secret

An Icy World's Tale of Discovery

Illustrator: Kidd, Diane

Beschreibung

Providing a history of the small, icy world from its discovery and naming to its recent reclassification, this book presents a fascinating look at how scientists organize and class our solar system as they gain new insights into how it works and what types of things exist within it.

Autor

Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp earned a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. During her graduate work, she was a Mellon fellow in the humanities and spent a year in residence at the NASA Headquarters History Office in Washington, D.C. as the American Historical Association / NASA Aerospace History Fellow. Weitekamp curates the Air and Space Museum's social and cultural dimensions of spaceflight collection. Diane Kidd is the award winning illustrator of numerous children's books. She has a degree in art education from the Pratt Institute and a master's degree in early childhood education from Bank Street College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abrams Books
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Altersempfehlung: 6 bis 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 258mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781419704239
• ISBN-10: 1419704230
• Artikelnr.: 36336250