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: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Pluto
International Astronomical Union: http://www.iau.org/
New Horizons: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/links/index.html
Planetary Society Pioneer Anomaly Project: http://planetary.org/programs/projects/pioneer_anomaly/
Voyager Interstellar Mission:http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar.html
Jules
