How I Killed Pluto and Why He had to come [Audio]
R-nd-m-Hou and Audio | 2010 | ISBN: no, ASIN: B004FI1B42 | MP3 @ 96 kbps | 7 hrs 48 mins | 321.87 Mb
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The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, Mercury near the Sun and Pluto in the outer edge. Then in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made ​​the discovery of a lifetime: a 10 planet, Eris, slightly larger than Pluto. But instead of resulting in its more a planet that is being added to our solar system, Browns find ignited a firestorm of controversy that has angered the normally quiet world of astronomy and threw it into the public eye.
The debate led to the demotion of Pluto a real planet to the newly coined category of "dwarf" planet. Suddenly, Brown was getting hate mail from school children and being bombarded by TV reporters – all because of the discovery that he spent years looking for a life and dreaming.
Full of humor and drama, as I Killed Pluto and Why He had to come is Mike Browns engaging first-person account of the most tumultuous years of modern astronomy – that he unwittingly caused. As guides readers through important scientific concepts and inspires us to think more deeply about our place in the cosmos, is also an entertaining and enlightening personal history: When Brown sought to expand our understanding of the nature of the vast space, his own life was changed the most immediate, human forms of love, birth and death. A deep and personal perspective on the demotion of everyones favorite farflung planet, How I Killed Pluto and Why He had to come is the book for anyone, young or old, who has dreamed of exploring the universe – and who among us hasn’t?
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