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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

Auteur(s): Mike Brown
Narrateur(s): Ryan Gesell
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 The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of its resulting in one more planet 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 into the public eye. The debate culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of “dwarf” planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters—all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about.

Filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is Mike Brown’s engaging first-person account of the most tumultuous year in modern astronomy—which he inadvertently caused. As it guides readers through important scientific concepts and inspires us to think more deeply about our place in the cosmos, it is also an entertaining and enlightening personal story: While Brown sought to expand our understanding of the vast nature of space, his own life was changed in the most immediate, human ways by love, birth, and death. A heartfelt and personal perspective on the demotion of everyone’s favorite farflung planet, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the book for anyone, young or old, who has ever dreamed of exploring the universe—and who among us hasn’t? Amériques Astronomie et science de l’espace Physique Science États-Unis Astronomie Système solaire Spirituel Mathématiques
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The story was brilliant, extremely well put together with lots of educational content with amazing analogies so they were easy to follow.

The only negative part of it is occasionally it refers to an object by the scientific identification which sounds like a phone number. Not ideal for audio.

Exellent, except for long strings of numbers.

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Great educational story that is funny the whole time. The voice performance is on of the better I've heard, really feels like he is tell the story not just reading.

One of my favourites

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