The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
Jul 2010 · W. W. Norton & Company
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The New York Times bestseller: "You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life." —Jon Stewart When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, "Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York." Immediately, the public, professionals, and press were choosing sides over Pluto's planethood. Pluto is entrenched in our cultural and emotional view of the cosmos, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, award-winning author and director of the Rose Center, is on a quest to discover why. He stood at the heart of the controversy over Pluto's demotion, and consequently Plutophiles have freely shared their opinions with him, including endless hate mail from third-graders. With his inimitable wit, Tyson delivers a minihistory of planets, describes the oversized characters of the people who study them, and recounts how America's favorite planet was ousted from the cosmic hub.
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July 28, 2010
Scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson provides the reader with a complete history of the planet Pluto, from its discovery in 1930 up to its official demotion from the list of planets in 2006, as well as a defense of his role in the process. Tyson tells the story of Pluto in a funny, easy-to-read fashion that makes The Pluto Files a very enjoyable scientific endeavor.
Trucker Josh
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March 2, 2015
Very good but gets a little repetitive. I didn't read the ebook I have the paperback which has a lot of good illustrations.
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Anurag Yadav
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July 6, 2018
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Times best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. He lives in New York City.
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