Dale P Cruikshank, William Sheehan

Broschiertes Buch

Discovering Pluto

Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 679g
• ISBN-13: 9780816539383
• ISBN-10: 0816539383
• Artikelnr.: 54393959