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<p><p>the <b>new York Times</b> Best-selling Author Chronicles America's Love Affair With Pluto, Man's Best (celestial) Friend.</p> <h3> The Barnes & Noble Review </h3> <p> When New York's American Museum Of Natural History Rebuilt Its Rose Center For Earth And Space, Its Staff Of Astrophysicists, After Much Discussion, Decided To Exclude Pluto From The Area Displaying Models Of The Planets, Grouping It Instead With The Growing Number Of Icy Objects Being Discovered Beyond Neptune. The Reclassification Remained Largely Unnoticed Until A Year After The 2000 Opening, When <em>the New York Times </em>published A Front-page Story Headlined Pluto's Not A Planet? Only In New York. Author Neil Degrasse Tyson, The Center's Director, Writes That The Ensuing Media Frenzy Made Him Public Enemy Of Pluto Lovers The World Over. In This Irreverent, Entertaining, Yet Substantive Book, Tyson Traces The Short History Of Planet Pluto, From Its 1930 Discovery By An Illinois Farm Boy And Amateur Astronomer To The 2006 Vote By The International Astronomical Union To Demote It To Dwarf Planet Status. As Tyson Suggests, The Debate Was Not Just Scientific But Also Cultural: Adults Clung To The Planetary Se

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Author

deGrasse Tyson, Neil

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393350364

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Mathematics, Astronomy

Rating

3.87 / 5 (2,716 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14