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Book Review Roundup: What Does The Guy Who Killed Pluto Have To Say For Himself?

Book Review Roundup: What Does The Guy Who Killed Pluto Have To Say For Himself?

But Dr. Brown has a unique distinction: He was, for a few hours in 2005, the only person on Planet Earth to know that the standard nine-planet solar system model was going to require rejiggering. He had just discovered a 10th potential planet, but he had also come to see that neither Pluto nor this new heavenly body (first nicknamed Xena, then officially named Eris) really measured up to the other eight.

 

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