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Title: Solar System Wrong
Review: I opened this book the other night to read with my son. One of the first pages to fall open was "Our Solar System", which is depicted as nine planets including Pluto, and no Kuiper Belt. Pluto was re-classified as a "dwarf planet" over 10 years ago. It is one of many icy objects that orbit the solar system in what is known as the "Kuiper Belt". The current model of the solar system is four inner planets made of rock, surrounded by a belt of rocky asteroids and four outer "gas giants" surrounded by a belt of icy objects.While there is controversy surrounding Pluto's reclassification (see "The Pluto Files" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson), the authors at Usbourne should acknowledge it if that's the reason they're sticking to the old model. Otherwise, it's just bad research and I can't trust anything else in the book.
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