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I'm enjoying his extended metaphor of the solar system as the ocean: asteroids as schools of minnows, planets as the pod of whales, and Pluton and the Kuiper belt objects as a "previously overlooked collection of sardines swimming in a faraway sea."

"The usually sparsely attended final session was likely to be full of surly astronomers itching for a fight." First, aren't they always? Two, it's disheartening that even this scientist finds the governing body's usual resolutions "unintelligible."

My 8 year old got very excited when he saw this book. We are reading it together and for a book written by an astronomer it is quite readable.