Name: The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
ISBN: 9780393073348

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TYSON, Neil deGrasse

The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet

2009

1. Science and Tech

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Neil deGrasse Tyson The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet Overview The Pluto Files (2009) is Neil deGrasse Tyson’s account of what happened when the Hayden Planetarium quietly stopped calling Pluto a planet, and the country noticed a year later and went to war about it. It is short — nine chapters, about 44,000 words, eight appendices — and it is not really an astronomy book. It is a book about what a culture does when a fact it was taught in second grade turns out…

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Accession:FL-0109

ISBN-13:9780393073348

Published:2009

Language:en

Shelved under:Science and Tech

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