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The New York Times best-selling publisher chronicles America's love affair with Pluto, man's best (celestial) friend. In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Definately not the sun, surprise Pluto has any admirers. Yet through the mounting controversy over rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Disney created an amazing doggy by the same name, and, as one NASA scientist said, Pluto was "discovered by an North american for America." Pluto is entrenched inside our ethnic, patriotic view of the cosmos, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is over a quest to discover why.
Only Tyson can inform this storyline: he was mixed up in first displays to demote Pluto, and, as a result, Pluto fans have freely distributed their thoughts with him, including never-ending hate mail from third graders. In his typically witty way, Tyson explores the history of planet been recently judged a dwarf. 35 color, 10 black-and-white