Is Pluto a Planet?: A Historical Journey through the Solar System
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1. Verfasser: Weintraub, David A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 1753
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A Note from the Author: On August 24, 2006, at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, by a majority vote of only the 424 members present, the IAU (an organization of over 10,000 members) passed a resolution defining planet in such a way as to exclude Pluto and established a new class of objects in the solar system to be called ""dwarf planets,"" which was deliberately designed to include Pluto. With the discovery of Eris (2003 UB313)--an outer solar system object thought to be both slightly larger than Pluto and twice as far from the Sun--astrono
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ISBN:9781400852970
DOI:10.1515/9781400852970

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