The New Horizons mission to Pluto (and beyond)
Barrie W. Jones is an astronomer whose new book, Pluto: Sentinel of the Outer Solar System, deals with the discovery and exploration of planetoid Pluto. In this excerpt, he describes New Horizons, a spacecraft that will visit Pluto in 2015. We would clearly learn a lot more about Pluto, its three satellites, the E-K belt,…
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Barrie W. Jones
Terry Pratchett’s young witch comes of age at last
Tiffany Aching, the teenage witch who stars in Terry Pratchett’s latest novel I Shall Wear Midnight, is in many ways the anti-Harry Potter. True, she’s a precocious pubescent who gets to ride a broomstick and save the day, but the final installment of her four-novel series of adventures is no jolly tale of boarding school,…
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Laurie Penny
