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REFERENCES FOR DR. MIKE LEGETT’S TALK ON PLUTO

 

 

 

 

Pluto & the outer Solar System
References & bibliography

 

 

1.1 Books (specifically about Pluto and the outer Solar System)

 

John Davies, Beyond Pluto: Exploring the outer limits of the Solar System, Cambridge UP, 2001

David H Levy, The Quest for Comets, Oxford UP, 1995

NASA/Southwest Research Institute/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, New Horizons The First Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt: Exploring Frontier Worlds Mission Guide, January 2006

Govert Schilling, The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto, Copernicus Books/Springer, 2009

Tom Standage, The Neptune File: Planet Detectives and the Discovery of Worlds Unseen, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2000

Carl Sagan & Anne Druyan, Comet, Headline, 1997

Alan Stern & Jacqueline Mitton, Pluto and Charon: Ice worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System, Wiley-Interscience, 1999

 

1.2 Books (with some coverage of Pluto and the outer Solar System)

 

Robert H Baker, Astronomy: A Textbook for University and College Students, D van Nostrand Company, 3rd edition, 1938

J Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen & Andrew Chaikin, The New Solar System, Sky Publishing Corp/Cambridge UP, 4th edition, 1999

T Encrenaz, J-P Bibring, & M Blanc, (Translated by S Dunlop), The Solar System, Springer, 2nd edition, 1995

Fred Hoyle, Frontiers of Astronomy, William Heinemann, 1955

John S Lewis, Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, Academic Press, 1997

Katharina Lodders & Bruce Fegley, Jr., The Planetary Scientist’s Companion, Oxford UP, 1998

Neil McBride & Iain Gilmour (eds), An Introduction to the Solar System, The Open University/Cambridge UP, 2004

Paul Murdin & Margaret Penston (eds), The Canopus Encyclopedia of Astronomy, Canopus, 2004

Ian Ridpath & John Woodruff (eds), Philip’s Astronomy Dictionary, George Philip Ltd/Reed International, 1995

Richard P Wayne, Chemistry of atmospheres, Oxford UP, 3rd edition, 2000

 

 

2 Papers & articles

 

Kulvinder Singh Chadha, Should Pluto count?, Astronomy Now, 20:9, September 2006, pp26 – 32

Marcus Chown, Strange attraction, New Scientist, 175:2352, 20 July 2002, pp28 – 32

Stuart Clark, Pluto to be or not to be?, Astronomy Now, 20:10, October 2006, pp28 – 31

Owen Gingerich, Losing it in Prague: The Inside Story of Pluto’s Demotion, Sky & Telescope, 112:5, November 2006, pp34 – 39

David W Hughes, Quaoar and the Edgeworth–Kuiper  Belt, Astronomy & Geophysics, 44:3, June 2003, pp3.21 – 3.22

William B McKinnon, Out on the Edge, Nature, 416, 11 July 2002, pp135 – 137

Patrick Moore, The Universe according to Patrick Moore, BBC Sky at Night, 17, October 2006, pp5 – 6

Justin Ray, The Race to Reach Pluto, Astronomy Now, 20:1, January 2006, pp24 – 26

Karen H Robinett, The Voyager Interstellar Mission, Astronomy Now, 4:3, March 1990, pp25 – 28

John Spencer, On to Pluto: New Horizons heads off to explore the new frontier, Planetary Report, XXVI:2, March/April 2006, pp24 – 26

Duncan Steel, Mystery at the edge of the Solar System, BBC Sky at Night, 16, September 2006, pp26 – 32

Duncan Steel, Mysteries of the frozen frontier, BBC Sky at Night, 10, March 2006, pp 38 – 43

S Alan Stern, Journey to the furthest planet, in Sci. Amer. Special Edition, 13:3, 2003, pp84 – 91

Paul R Weissman, The Oort Cloud, in Sci. Amer. Special Edition, 13:3, 2003, pp92 – 100

Iwan Williams & Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Meeting Report: What it takes to make a planet, Astronomy & Geophysics, 47:5, pp5.16 – 5.17, October 2006

Eliot F Young, Richard P Binzel & Keenan Crane, A two-color map of Pluto’s sub-Charon hemisphere, The Astronomical Journal, 121, January 2001, pp552 – 561

 

3 Websites

 

Pluto: https://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Pluto

 

International Astronomical Union: https://www.iau.org/

 

New Horizons: https://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

https://pluto.jhuapl.edu/links/index.html

 

Planetary Society Pioneer Anomaly Project: https://planetary.org/programs/projects/pioneer_anomaly/

 

Voyager Interstellar Mission:https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar.html