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The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to sunlight and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the breakthrough of a lifetime: a 10th entire world, Eris, somewhat bigger than Pluto. But rather than its resulting in one more entire world being added to our solar system, Brown's find ignited a firestorm of controversy that riled the usually sedate world of astronomy and launched him in to the public eyeball. The debate culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real entire world to the newly coined category of "dwarf" planet. Suddenly Brown was obtaining hate email from schoolchildren and being bombarded by Television reporters - all as a result of discovery he previously spent years looking for and a lifetime dreaming about. Filled up with both laughter and dilemma, How I Killed Pluto and just why It Got It Approaching is Mike Brown's participating first-person account of the most tumultuous season in modern astronomy - which he inadvertently triggered. As it guides viewers through important clinical ideas and inspires us to believe deeper about our place in the cosmos, additionally it is an entertaining and enlightening personal report: While Brown sought to grow our understanding of the vast character of space, his own life was modified in the most immediate, human being ways by love, birth, and death. A heartfelt and personal perspective on the demotion of everyone's favorite farflung entire world, How I Killed Pluto and just why It Got It Approaching is the publication for anybody, young or old, that has ever dreamed of discovering the universe - and who in our midst hasn't?
