Author : James Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399542191
Hello, Pluto! What’s cold, dark, far away, and has a “heart” one thousand miles wide? Pluto! In this highly-visual Smithsonian book, kids can check out exciting information and sensational photographs transmitted by the New Horizons spacecraft on its historic fly-by of the distant and mysterious dwarf planet.
Author : James Buckley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Pluto (Dwarf planet)
ISBN : 0399542183
"What's cold, dark, far away, and has a 'heart' one thousand miles wide? Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft has brought back all kinds of new information about Pluto. Let's go exploring"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Nathan Sommer
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1681036959
In 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Small, rocky dwarf planets make their home on the outer edges of the solar system. Scientists use telescopes to study Pluto and the dwarf planets as they orbit the Sun. Their fascinating findings are on display in this informative title about some of the solar system’s most far-away objects!
Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0385531109
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?
Author : Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0984469362
The debut novel from PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of Call Me Zebra and Savage Tongues is a comic psychological thriller, an absurdist journey into the heart of darkness. A man purchases a house, the house of Fra Keeler, moves in, and begins investigating the circumstances of the latter's death. Yet the investigation quickly turns inward, and the reality it seeks to unravel seems only to grow stranger, as the narrator pursues not leads but lines of thought, most often to hideous conclusions.
Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393073343
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.
Author : Stef Wade
Publisher : Capstone Editions
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2019-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 168446093X
Shocked to be stripped of his planet status, Pluto goes on a quest to find his place in the universe. Includes educational materials.
Author : Jacqueline Jules
Publisher : Seagrass Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781633224612
Pluto is peeved. And who can blame him? He was once considered one of the Solar System’s nine planets but was unceremoniously demoted. “Why do scientists think it is all right to change things?” Is just one question Pluto asks as he roams the science museum in search of answers. Pluto Is Peeved!, a comic-book-style picture book, takes you on a scientific journey side-by-side with Pluto, who speaks with other museum inhabitants—such as a dinosaur, a germ, and the Earth—and learns what exactly scientists are interested in. The answer is: everything, including him!
Author : Alice B. McGinty
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1524768324
An empowering, inspiring--and accessible!--nonfiction picture book about the eleven-year-old girl who actually named the newly discovered Pluto in 1930. When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery--a "ninth major planet" that has yet to be named--her eleven-year-old mind starts whirring. She is studying the planets in school and loves Roman mythology. "It might be called Pluto," she says, thinking of the dark underworld. Grandfather loves the idea and contacts his friend at London's Royal Astronomical Society, who writes to scientists at the Lowell Observatory in Massachusetts, where Pluto was discovered. After a vote, the scientists agree unanimously: Pluto is the perfect name for the dark, cold planet. Here is a picture book perfect for STEM units and for all children--particularly girls--who have ever dreamed of becoming a scientist.
Author : Chris Ferrie
Publisher : Sourcebooks Explore
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728205243
"Pluto the planet Was really quite proud. But at the party of planets, It wasn't allowed... Scientists have determined that Pluto is a minor planet and is no longer considered one of the main planets of the Solar System. But that doesn't mean we don't love Pluto and the other minor planets in the universe! From the team behind the adorably popular 8 Little Planets comes a new tale about the planet who no longer fits in"--
