Discovering Pluto - Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System

Offers an authoritative account of the exploration of Pluto and its moons, from the first inklings of tentative knowledge through the exciting discoveries made during the flyby of the NASA New Horizons research spacecraft in 2015. Dale Cruikshank was a co-investigator on the New Horizons mission; William Sheehan is an historian of the Solar System.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Dale P. Cruikshank is an astronomer and planetary scientist in the Astrophysics Branch at NASA Ames Research Center. His research specialties are spectroscopy and radiometry of planets and small bodies in the Solar System, such as comets, asteroids, planetary satellites, dwarf planets, and other objects beyond Neptune. In 2006 he received the Kuiper Prize of the Division for Planetary Sciences.

William Sheehan is a historian of astronomy and psychiatrist. His many books include Planets and Perception, Worlds in the Sky, and The Planet Mars, also published by the University of Arizona Press. Asteroid No. 16037 was named in his honor.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dale P Cruikshank, Dale P. Cruikshank, William Sheehan
• Verlag: The University of Arizona Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780816539383
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3938-3
• Seiten: 504
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 228 mm x 27 mm
• Gewicht: 679 g
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Physik, Astronomie > Astronomie