;Luspay-Kuti, Adrienn (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA (United States)),Mandt, Kathleen (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA (United States))
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Pluto visits Earth in a truly out-of-this-world adventure!Pluto is not pleased when he learns that astronomers have downgraded him from planet to dwarf planet. He embarks on a fun and out-of-this-worl
New Horizons was designed by NASA to study Pluto and the fringes of our solar system, farther away than any spacecraft has ever explored. Join science writer Elaine Scott as she tells the story of thi
The reclassification of Pluto in 2006 not only decreased the number of planets in our solar system by one but also introduced the new category of dwarf planet. Readers will come to understand what sep
Describes Pluto and other dwarf planets as part of the solar system, and discusses its discovery, Charon--its largest moon--Eris, Ceres, asteroids, the Kuiper belt, and related topics.
Introduces space objects such as the ice dwarf Pluto which exist beyond Neptune, discussing how they were formed, their distance from the Sun, their orbit, and the definition of asteroids, meteoroids,
Describes the physical characteristics and movements of the smallest bodies of rock and ice that are in rotation around the Sun, and are known as dwarf planets.
Pluto, once considered the ninth planet in our solar system, is now classified as one of the largest dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. But what is a dwarf planet? And what is the Kuiper Belt? This eng