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the new York Times Best-selling Author Chronicles America's Love Affair With Pluto, Man's Best (celestial) Friend.
The Barnes & Noble Review
When New York's American Museum Of Natural History Rebuilt Its Rose Center For Earth And Space, Its Staff Of Astrophysicists, After Much Discussion, Decided To Exclude Pluto From The Area Displaying Models Of The Planets, Grouping It Instead With The Growing Number Of Icy Objects Being Discovered Beyond Neptune. The Reclassification Remained Largely Unnoticed Until A Year After The 2000 Opening, When the New York Times published A Front-page Story Headlined Pluto's Not A Planet? Only In New York. Author Neil Degrasse Tyson, The Center's Director, Writes That The Ensuing Media Frenzy Made Him Public Enemy Of Pluto Lovers The World Over. In This Irreverent, Entertaining, Yet Substantive Book, Tyson Traces The Short History Of Planet Pluto, From Its 1930 Discovery By An Illinois Farm Boy And Amateur Astronomer
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