Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy. Episode 20, Discovering Pluto and the Kuiper Belt

Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy Episode 20, Discovering Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Episode 20, Discovering Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Streaming video - 2021

Explore Pluto's brief decades of fame. Start with Percival Lowell and Clyde Tombaugh's search for another planet lurking beyond Neptune, continue with Gerard Kuiper's pioneering work on airborne observatories that revealed our first glimpse of Pluto's atmosphere, and conclude with the planet's demotion to a dwarf planet that was part of the ring of rock-and-ice objects known as the Kuiper belt.

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Subjects
Astronomy.
Technology.
History, Modern.
Computer science.
Physics.
Education films.
Genres
Education films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses 2021.
2022.
Language
English
Other Authors
The Great Courses (film director), Emily Levesque (actor)
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).

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