How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

Taschenbuch
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Beschreibung

The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of adding one more planet to our solar system, Brown’s find ignited a firestorm of controversy that culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of “dwarf” planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters—all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about.

A heartfelt and personal journey filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the book for anyone, young or old, who has ever imagined exploring the universe—and who among us hasn’t?
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Oh boyyyyyy was this disappointing. I went into this expecting a fun science non fiction. In reality this book is a biography/memoir and it's absolutely boring. Neither was I interested in Mike Browns life story nor did I like him, and you kinda have to like the people you're reading a memoir of.... As he presented himself in this book he came off as privileged, narcissistic, intrusive and unlikeable. It may sound harsh but if I ever have to hear about the spanish astronomers or the collection of some random data again, I might scream. In general was the entire middle section so incredibly repetitive: we look forever for a planet, one night we saw a possible light, now we did math, we named it, it's actually smaller than Pluto, what a bummer, we look at the sky again. Additionally this didn't do a good job of explaining the field of expertise and, for being so much memoir, how the author was able to do any of his projects. Like where was he getting the money to chart the sky for 2 years?

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