Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar SystemPlanets Beyond provides a highly entertaining introduction to the discovery of the outer planets, which began 250 years ago with William Herschel's sighting of Uranus, and programming right up to the planned voyager fly-by of Neptune in 1989. Written in a lighthearted style, but based on recent scientific facts, the author tells the stories of these mysterious bodies, as well as historical and scientific vignettes about the people involved in planetary exploration and study. |
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The Discovery of Uranus | 1 |
The Fervor for New Planets | 14 |
Trouble with Uranus | 23 |
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Adams Airy Arago arc ring Ariel asteroid astronomer royal astronomical units atmosphere billion kilometers billion miles blink Bode's Law bodies calculations Cambridge celestial Challis Charon close closest Clyde Tombaugh comets craters detected diameter discovered disk distance Earth eclipse equator Flandern Galileo Grand Tour Harrington Jet Propulsion Laboratory John Jupiter Jupiter and Saturn Jupiter's Lagrangian Points light Lowell Observatory Lowell's magnetic field Mars mass mathematical methane ice Miranda mission motion of Uranus NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Neptune Neptune's Oberon object observations occultation Oort Cloud orbit outer planets particles percent Percival Lowell perihelion period perturbations photographic Pickering Planet X planetary planetesimals plates Pluto Pluto and Charon pole position predicted problem radio ring system rings of Uranus rotation satellites Saturn scientists shepherd moons Slipher solar system spacecraft star surface telescope tenth planet tion Titania trajectory trans-Neptunian planet Triton Umbriel University Uranian Uranus and Neptune Verrier