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When is a planet not a planet? : the story of Pluto by Elaine Scott is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Q: When is a planet not a planet?<p>Scientists have argued for years over the answer to this question. And central to their debate has been Pluto, the tiny orb circling the Sun at the outermost reaches of our solar. Then on August 24, 2006, a group of astronomers made a big announcement: Pluto could no longer be considered a planet. <p>This fascinating and breathtakingly illustrated book explains in simple terms how advancements in technology have changed our understanding of the universe--and exactly how and why the number of planets in our solar system went from nine to eight.<p>A: When it's a dwarf planet.</p><h3>Children's Literature</h3><p>Unless you have not been reading the papers, you know that there has been a major controversy about whether Pluto should be considered a full-fledged planet or reclassified as a dwarf-planet. In this book Scott recaps a lot of the history of astronomy, including some of the great names and their discoveries—Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler—and notes that until 1781 the theory was that only six planets made up our solar system. That changed with more contemporary astronomers such as Herschel, Piazzi, Galle, Lowell, Tombau
Who reads When is a planet not a planet? : the story of Pluto?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Elaine Scott
- Publisher
- New York: Clarion Books
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780618898329
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Children'S
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (115 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14