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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“Pluto is dead” –Mike Brown

February 2, 2016 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

This book was funny, interesting, and while I loved learning about the Pluto stuff, I also think Mike Brown ought to try his hand at a parenting book. “Pluto was part of their mental landscape, the one they had constructed to organize their thinking about the solar system and their own place within it. Pluto seemed like the edge of existence. Ripping Pluto out of that landscape caused what felt like an inconceivably empty hole.” Astronomer Mike Brown has spent most of his career believing […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, mike brown

badkittyuno's CBR8 Review No:20 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, mike brown ·
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Confessions of a Planet Killer

January 25, 2016 by Caitlin_D 2 Comments

“Pluto was part of their mental landscape, the one they had constructed to organize their thinking about the solar system and their own place within it. Pluto seemed like the edge of existence. Ripping Pluto out of that landscape caused what felt like an inconceivably empty hole.” On August 25, 2006 the International Astronomical Union met in Prague and voted on what a planet was and whether or not Pluto met those qualifications. I was about a week into my freshman year of college where […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: how i killed pluto, how i killed pluto and why it had it coming, mike brown

Caitlin_D's CBR8 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: how i killed pluto, how i killed pluto and why it had it coming, mike brown ·
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