Download or read book Let s Explore Pluto and Beyond written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Explore Pluto and Beyond investigates the latest discoveries about Pluto, explains its change in classification from planet to dwarf planet, and describes the other space objects found beyond Pluto's orbit.
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 103 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.
Download or read book Chasing New Horizons written by Alan Stern and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 364 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.
Download or read book Let s Explore Mars written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, history, and exploration of Mars.
Download or read book Let s Explore Comets and Asteroids written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens Learning Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about asteroids and comets, including what they are made of and where they are found.
Download or read book Beyond Pluto written by John Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ten years preceding publication, the known solar system more than doubled in size. For the first time in almost two centuries an entirely new population of planetary objects was found. This 'Kuiper Belt' of minor planets beyond Neptune revolutionised our understanding of the solar system's formation and finally explained the origin of the enigmatic outer planet Pluto. This is the fascinating story of how theoretical physicists decided that there must be a population of unknown bodies beyond Neptune and how a small band of astronomers set out to find them. What they discovered was a family of ancient planetesimals whose orbits and physical properties were far more complicated than anyone expected. We follow the story of this discovery, and see how astronomers, theoretical physicists and one incredibly dedicated amateur observer came together to explore the frozen boundary of the solar system.
Download or read book Let s Explore Earth written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about the Earth and its relationship to the Sun and other celestial bodies.
Download or read book Let s Explore the Sun written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, evolution, and legends of the sun.
Download or read book Let s Explore Mercury written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about Mercury, its place in the solar system, and its relationship to other celestial bodies.
Download or read book Let s Explore Saturn written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics of and latest discoveries about the planet Saturn.
Download or read book Let s Explore Neptune written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about Neptune, its place in the solar system, and its relationship to other celestial bodies.
Download or read book Let s Explore Venus written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics of and latest discoveries about the planet Venus.
Download or read book Let s Explore Uranus written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics of and latest discoveries about the planet Uranus.
Download or read book Let s Explore Jupiter written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics of and latest discoveries about the planet Jupiter.
Download or read book Let s Explore the Moon written by Helen Orme and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics of and latest discoveries about the moon.
Download or read book When is a Planet Not a Planet written by Elaine Scott and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space and planets are topics of endless fascination to kids and part of every grade-school curriculum. Yet because of the history-making reassignment of Pluto from "planet” to "dwarf planet” on August 24, 2006, all books on the solar system are now out of date. Enter When is a Planet Not a Planet? The Story of Pluto by Elaine Scott, an esteemed writer of non-fiction for children. Scott is the first to put the answer to the title question into terms simple enough for a very young audience to understand, based upon the new definitions determined by the International Astronomical Union. Well-researched and accompanied by large, awe-inspiring photographs and paintings, this exciting new book makes clear what astronomers have argued about for decades.
Download or read book Pluto and Charon written by Alan Stern and published by Wiley-VCH. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rave reviews for Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System The story of the quest to understand Pluto and the resulting transformation of our concept of the diminutive planet from that of solar-system misfit to king of the Kuiper Belt is told in this book by Alan Stern and Jacqueline Mitton. Stern, a Plutophile to the core, is one of the most energetic, talented, and savvy planetary astronomers in the business today. Mitton, trained as an astronomer, is an experienced writer and editor of scientific books for nonscientists. Together they have created an immensely informative book . . . Written in an engaging and informal style, Pluto and Charon takes the reader step by step from the discovery of the ninth planet in 1930 to the current understanding of Pluto and its moon, Charon.-Sky & Telescope More than a book summarizing what we know about [the] planet, [Pluto and Charon is] about how far and how fast astronomical technology has come since 1965 . . . Stern and Mitton use the narrative of Pluto research to explain in comfortable, everyday language how such work is done . . . One of the nice touches in the book is that Stern and Mitton tell us something about each astronomer.-Astronomy Pluto and Charon presents the exploration of the ninth planet-written as a vivid historical account-for anyone with an interest in science and astronomy . . . the authors describe in simple language the methods researchers use to explore the universe and the way ever-improving instrumentation helps their knowledge advance.-Physics Today
