How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming by Mike Brown
The hunt goes onward.
“I told her about all of the recent astronomical discoveries. But when pressed for evidence, I had to admit: I had none whatsoever. I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don’t work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence.” Page 14.
A hunch? But that’s what found Pluto, almost by accident. That’s another book.
The continual references to Clyde Tombaugh and Pluto’s “discovery” made me dig out the original I had, Out of the Darkness, about the hunt then observation of Pluto in its original form — and why most scientists were not really good as authors.
There is an almost standard meme I’ve seen, about recipes and recipe websites, and how the adventure to find the recipe and ingredients, and what was going on in the author’s life seems almost more important than recipe. I want to know what parts are used, and in what combination, not that one was doing.
Eventually, the book does settle down and start looking at the science of the planets, and especially the Kuiper Belt objects, and what is beyond Neptune.
Good science. OK literature. A plus because it isn’t astrology or fiction.
