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Contents Prologue Why Study the Universe? Part 1 What Our Forebearers Knew Chapter 1 Stonehenge: Monument or Megalithic Telescope? Chapter 2 How Did the Stars Get Their Names? Chapter 3 What Was the Christmas Star? Chapter 4 How Do We Know When Comet Halley Was Seen? Part 2 Looking Around Our Solar System Chapter 5 Our Moon: Nearest Neighbor, Mystery, and Desirable Real Estate? Chapter 6 Is There Life on Mars? Chapter 7 Pluto: Impostor or King of the Outer Darkness? Part 3 Triumph and Tragedy Chapter 8 Finding Out . . . Chapter 9 Clear and Present Danger: Will We be the Next Dinosaurs? Chapter 10 Goldilocks and the Three Planets Chapter 11 Going to the Planets? Chapter 12 Are We Stardust? Afterward (Perhaps Not) Going to the Planets?
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Astronomy Popular works