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Amazon.com Review A Letter from Author Mike Brown My daughter Lilah, now five years old, is mad at me for killing Pluto. When I began a project 13 years ago to chart the slowly-moving objects of the distant outer solar system, my goal was never to pull Pluto off of its cherished planetary pedestal. I wanted to be a planet discoverer, like William Herschel or Clyde Tombaugh before me. I had a strong feeling that somewhere out there something bigger than Pluto was lurking, and I knew that whoever found it would get to claim the mantle as the only living planet discoverer. I was right. Something bigger than Pluto was out there (or at least something more massive than Pluto; sizes are a little harder to pin down precisely) and one January morning in 2005, my small team of astronomers and I found it. We announced the discovery of the 10th planet to an unsuspecting world late on the afternoon of Lilah’s 22nd day of life. A little after her first birthday, though, the doors to the planetary club were locked and Pluto and my own discovery were kicked out on the curb. The solar system was down to only eight planets. It was hard not to mourn the loss of my now ex-planet, except for the f

Who reads How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming?

Author

Brown, Mike

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385531092

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Astronomy

Rating

3.98 / 5 (6,358 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14