A FASCINATING LOOK AT THE EARLY EXPLORATION
OF THE OUTER PLANETS AND THEIR MOONS
PLANETS BEYOND
By Mark Littmann
1990 Revised Edition with many illustrations of planets and spacecraft.
Description: Mark Littmann PLANETS BEYOND: DISCOVERING THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM New York: John Wiley and Sons., 1990, 9 x 7 in., 319 pp. Many illustrations.
Condition: Trade paperback in pictorial soft covers. Moderate handling soil and edgewear to cover. Interior is clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout.
Information: A lovely popular book by a prize-winning American science writer, highlighting the early space exploration of the outer planets with missions like the Voyager spacecraft.
Chapter titles include: 1 The Discovery of Uranus 2 The Fervor for New Planets 3 Trouble with Uranus 4 Neptune: The Planet Found on a Sheet of Paper 5 Percival Lowell and Planet X 6 The Discovery of Pluto 7 Toward Uranus 8 The Grand Tour of Voyager 2 Triumph at Uranus 10 Appointment with Neptune 11 Voyagers to the Stars 12 The Smallest Planet 13 Is There a Tenth Planet? 14 Voyager 2 at Neptune: Beyond Imagination 15 Cosmic Archives: What the Outer Solar System Can Tell Us Endnotes Appendix A Chronologies
Biographical Note: Mark Littmann is a professor emeritus at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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