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Out of the Darkness - The Planet Pluto (Paperback)
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Out of the Darkness - The Planet Pluto (Paperback)
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Loot Price R582
Discovery Miles 5 820
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An adventure in scientific discovery Pluto, the farthermost planet
in the solar system, some 3,673 million mites from the Sun, was
discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in 1930. The
fiftieth anniversary of Pluto's discovery will be celebrated in
1980 and OUT OF THE DARKNESS: THE PLANET PLUTO tells the exciting
scientific story of the twenty-five year search for a planet X
beyond Neptune, and its discovery-the only planet found in the
twentieth century. The planets Mercury, Venus. Mars, Jupiter, and
Saturn were all known since antiquity. Then Sir William Herschel
discovered Uranus in 1781, and 65 years later, in 1846, Johann
Calle and Urbain le Verner discovered Neptune. Variations in
orbital perturbations of the planets and theoretical astronomy were
responsible for predicting and discovering the three outermost
planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) and so Pluto's story is also,
to some extent, the story of its planetary neighbors. What kind of
world is Pluto? Much is still a mystery (its
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