2., completely revised and updated Edition - September 2005
49.90 Euro
2005. XIII, 244 Pages, Hardcover
100 Fig., 1 Tab. 
- General Reading -
ISBN-10: 3-527-40556-9
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40556-5 - Wiley-VCH, Berlin






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Short description
The entertaining story of how the many 'Plutophiles' have skillfully pieced together an amazingly detailed picture of Pluto and Charon. This second edition has been fully updated to include the latest discoveries and a completely new chapter on the New Horizons mission.

From the contents
Preface
Prologue: Encounter!
Chapter 1: New Frontier
Chapter 2: First Facts
Chapter 3: A Distant Dance
Chapter 4: The Importance of Snow
Chapter 5: Building a Binary Planet
Chapter 6: Icefields and Ice Dwarfs
Chapter 7: Everest
Chapter 8: New Horizons
Chapter 9: Where No-one has Gone Before
Appendix: A Chronology of Major Events in the Exploration of Pluto and Charon
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