| Contents |
Twenty-Seven Years and Three Billion Miles -- A New Planet -- Gaps -- "With the Tip of a Pen" -- Post-Discovery Controversies -- The Search for Planet X -- Clyde's Planet -- Planetary Astronomy -- Planetary Science, New Technology, and the Discovery of Ice -- Whence the Ices? Chemistry in the Solar System -- Icy Earth and Beyond -- Why Ice on Pluto Matters -- New Discoveries and a New Paradigm -- Ices Predict an Atmosphere -- Surprise! A Moon Is Found -- More Than Ice : Some Extraordinary Chemistry -- Genesis of a Flight to Pluto -- The Flight of New Horizons -- Pluto and Charon : Marvelous Worlds -- On to the Kuiper Belt -- Appendix 1. The New Horizons Science Team -- Appendix 2. The New Horizons Spacecraft. |
| Abstract |
The story of Pluto and its largest moon, from discovery through the New Horizons flyby--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-463) and index. |
| LCCN | 2017047625 |
| ISBN | 9780816534319 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0816534314 hardcover alkaline paper |
