"All in all, this should be on your office bookshelf as an ideal resource to answer questions that the public still have about Pluto, as their interest in this fascinating body has increased since its untimely and controversial demotion."—April S. Whitt, Fernbank Science Center
“Cruikshank and Sheehandescribe marvelously the dispute between Adams and Le Verrier over credit for the discovery of Neptune.”—Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books
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Discovering Pluto is a beautiful book that will delight anyone interested in the Solar System.”—
Sky at Night Magazine
“This authoritative, well-illustrated, and thoroughly-referenced book will be the ‘go-to’ tome for anyone interested in [Pluto] for many years to come.”—
The Observatory Magazine
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Discovering Pluto offers the backstory of the explorations of our solar system’s most remote regions…offering deeper tones, scientific details that can be savored more slowly.”—
Wall Street Journal
“This superb and timely book covers not only the New Horizons mission and its results, but also places the discovery of Pluto and the New Horizons mission in historical context, beginning with the discovery of Uranus in 1781.”—
Society for the History of Astronomy Bulletin
“A comprehensive and authoritative account of the exploration of Pluto and its moons, providing a ringside seat to the exciting discoveries made during the New Horizons flyby. Here in one place is everything you need to know about the Plutonian system.”—Bonnie J. Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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Discovering Pluto offers a rare insider’s view, spanning the modern history of planetary science from early telescopic observations through the recent spectacular New Horizons flyby of Pluto.”—Keith Noll, Planetary Scientist