To Pluto And Back

Author : Shelly Lanette Hogan-King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692185223
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love You to Pluto and Back written by Shelly Lanette Hogan-King and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This educational book of illustrations shows just how far your love reaches. Measurements of love have always stood the test of time from I love you this much, I love you more, I love you bunches, to I love you to the moon and back. Let your love ones know you love them to Pluto and back, which is way further than the moon.

Author : Elaine Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451479432
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Pluto and Beyond written by Elaine Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Horizons was designed by NASA to study Pluto and the fringes of our solar system, farther away than any spacecraft has ever explored. Join science writer Elaine Scott as she tells the story of this mission. For Stephen Hawking, New Horizons signifies that "We explore because we are human and we want to know." This remarkable ship, no bigger than a piano, and using no more energy than a lightbulb, has already traveled three billion miles out to Pluto, and is continuing on to the Kuiper Belt, the farthest reaches of our solar system. The book will feature the beautiful, amazingly sharp photographs it is sending back from its journey, which are letting scientists fill in the blanks in our knowledge of Pluto--and delivering a few surprises along the way. Elaine Scott tells the exciting story of everyone's favorite planet, from Pluto's discovery through the frustrating attempts to study such a distant object, the creation of the New Horizons project, scientists' hopes and expectations for the mission, and what is being discovered. Her clear, engaging prose does more than narrate the events. By showing how scientists operate, their hypotheses, hopes, and disappointments, and how they make use of them, she gives readers an inspiring portrait of the scientific method itself.

Author : Margaret Weitekamp
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613124961
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pluto's Secret written by Margaret Weitekamp and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People, children especially, have been baffled, bewildered, and even outraged by the fact that Pluto is no longer called a planet. Through whimsical artwork and an entertaining dialogue format, Pluto’s Secret explains the true story of this distant world. Providing a history of the small, icy world from its discovery and naming to its recent reclassification, this book presents a fascinating look at how scientists organize and classify our solar system as they gain new insights into how it works and what types of things exist within it. The book includes a glossary and bibliography. Praise for Pluto's Secret "Pairing a lighthearted narrative in a hand-lettered†“style typeface with informally drawn cartoon illustrations, this lively tale of astronomical revelations begins with the search for Planet X.†? —Kirkus Reviews "This picture book offers a fresh, positive perspective on Pluto, showing that its change of status is not a demotion but a correction." —Booklist "Light-hearted imagining of a gregarious Pluto.†? —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Fun reading... The book provides a factual history of our faraway 'dwarf,' and on its companion icy worlds, and on the discovery of Kuiper-like bands around other stars." —School Library Journal Award New York Public Library’s annual Children’s Books list: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2013

Author : Alan Stern
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 125009898X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing New Horizons written by Alan Stern and published by Picador. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534430571
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to Pluto written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Jet Propulsion and his friends as they travel to Pluto in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode of PBS’s hit show Ready Jet Go! Jet and his friends are going on a journey all the way to Pluto! Come along and learn about the dwarf planet way out at the edge of our solar system. This Level 2 Ready-to-Read includes bonus back matter content with lots of fun facts about Pluto! © Copyright 2018 Jet Propulsion, LLC. Ready Jet Go! is a registered trademark of Jet Propulsion, LLC.

Author : Stephen P. Maran
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1935251856
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pluto Confidential written by Stephen P. Maran and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) adopted a new definition of a "planet" in August 2006, Pluto became a dwarf planet, drawing a divisive line in science and public opinions. The controversy of whether Pluto is a planet continues years later, and passion about the decision remains, pitting scientist against scientist and invoking sentiments and nostalgia from the rest of the world. With the IAU definition, the future of space objects is forever changed. Learn how this resolution came to be and what it means for astronomy, who implemented it and who is against it, and whether it's the first or millionth time the world's view of astronomy has rotated on its axis. Written by an astronomer and educator who voted for the IAU resolution—Laurence A. Marschall—and a NASA scientist who supported the opposing petition that resulted—Stephen P. Maran—Pluto Confidential leaves no perspective out and no asteroid unturned in the Pluto debate. A telescopic look inside the book: • History of planetary disputes, including why Jupiter almost wasn't acknowledged • What Bode's Law is and how it has influenced observations • Who discovered Pluto and how it was named • The Kuiper Belt and its role in what it means to be a planet • Beyond Pluto and the eight distinguished planets

Author : Adam Rex
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534414541
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pluto Gets the Call written by Adam Rex and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pluto gets a call from Earth telling him he isn’t a planet anymore, so he sets out on a journey through the solar system to find out why in this funny and fact-filled romp that’s perfect for fans of The Scrambled States of America. Pluto loves being a planet. That is, until the day he gets a call from some Earth scientists telling him he isn’t a planet anymore! You probably wanted to meet a real planet, huh? So, Pluto takes the reader on a hilarious and informative journey through the solar system to introduce the other planets and commiserate about his situation along the way. Younger readers will be so busy laughing over Pluto’s interactions with the other planets, asteroids, moons, and even the sun, they won’t even realize just how much they’re learning about our solar system!

Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393073343
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet written by Neil deGrasse Tyson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Steve Kortenkamp
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736867535
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Isn't Pluto a Planet? written by Steve Kortenkamp and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brief description of planets, including what they are, where they are, and how they orbit around the sun"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stef Wade
Publisher : Capstone Editions
ISBN 13 : 168446093X
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place for Pluto written by Stef Wade and published by Capstone Editions. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocked to be stripped of his planet status, Pluto goes on a quest to find his place in the universe. Includes educational materials.