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Jul 15, 2015sayle rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a delightful memoir of astronomer Mike Brown’s discovery of Eris, which helped seal Pluto’s fate, classification-wise. Brown weaves into his tale of scientific discovery the story of meeting his wife and of his daughter’s babyhood, which he approached scientifically, carefully measuring her sleep and eating. He also details the controversy over the discovery of Haumea and makes a convincing argument that another researcher unethically used Brown’s observational data to scoop Brown’s team on the discovery announcement. The book is engagingly written, including several laugh-out-loud moments, with scientific explanations that are very accessible to the lay reader. You’ll get a feel for what it’s like to be a planetary scientist on a day-to-day basis and to be a member of the professional astronomical community. Highly recommended.