Author:
Cruikshank, Dale P. author.
ImprintTucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, [2018]
Descriptionxiv, 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Note:Twenty-Seven Years and Three Billion Miles -- A New Planet -- Gaps -- "With the Tip of a Pen" -- Post-Discovery Controversies -- The Search for Planet X -- Clyde's Planet -- Planetary Astronomy -- Planetary Science, New Technology, and the Discovery of Ice -- Whence the Ices? Chemistry in the Solar System -- Icy Earth and Beyond -- Why Ice on Pluto Matters -- New Discoveries and a New Paradigm -- Ices Predict an Atmosphere -- Surprise! A Moon Is Found -- More Than Ice : Some Extraordinary Chemistry -- Genesis of a Flight to Pluto -- The Flight of New Horizons -- Pluto and Charon : Marvelous Worlds -- On to the Kuiper Belt -- Appendix 1. The New Horizons Science Team -- Appendix 2. The New Horizons Spacecraft.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:The story of Pluto and its largest moon, from discovery through the New Horizons flyby.--Provided by publisher.
