Dwarf Planets and Asteroids: Minor Bodies of the Solar System

By Thomas Wm. Hamilton

This stunning astronomy book explores Dwarf Planets and Asteroids: Minor Bodies of the Solar System. Written by a retired astronomer, the book provides a survey of the dwarf planets and asteroids, giving details of the discovery, naming, orbits, and physical characteristics of hundreds of examples of the known asteroids found by astronomers in the past two centuries. It also includes the different groups and classes of asteroids. Those bodies that have been visited by spacecraft are singled out for extra attention, including close-up photos where available. About two hundred asteroids have been found to have moons of their own, and the story of their discovery and examples of these moons are also included.

About the Author: This is Thomas Wm. Hamilton's fourth astronomy book in the past four years. Having retired after working for three years on the Apollo Project and 32 years of teaching college astronomy, he now has time to exercise his creativity by bringing select astronomical topics to a wider audience. Asteroid 4897 was named in Hamilton's honor and is called Tomhamilton. The author resides on Staten Island, New York. Author's website: http: //planetariumscholars.webs.com

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628577282
• ISBN13: 9781628577280
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating book. Asteroids have moons!?

Fascinating book! The detail in this book is meticulous which is not surprising since the Author, Thomas Wm. Hamilton is an astronomer and was a professor of Astronomy for over 30 years. He also ran planetariums and as if that wasn't enough, he worked on the Apollo project. He was honored by the International Astronomical Union with an asteroid 4897 named for him now. Truly a credible resource and very fine writer, I follow his science fact and science fiction books, he has something like 10 or 12 in print right now.