How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is an engrossing story about one astronomer and his dreams. Astronomer Mike Brown is the author, and his lifelong passion is to find the tenth planet. When he does, the reaction isn’t one of joy, but one of constant controversy, eventually resulting in the creation of dwarf planets and the demotion of Pluto. Even to this day, Brown is asked questions and given hate mail - all because of a discovery that he had spent a lifetime dreaming of. In this story of humor, love, distraction, anger, and even theft, Mike Brown details the reasons why he, and many fellow astronomers believe that Pluto, Ceres, and Mike's own Eris (known then as Xena or Planet X) do not deserve to be planets.