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Exploring The Planets-Discovery
The five known in antiquity, three more since the telescope, and Ceres.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/discovery/...
Exploring the Moon
Provides knowledge and history of exploration with sections for timeline, atlas, crater catalog, and documents.
http://www.space.edu/moon/
The Struggles to Find the Ninth Planet
A paper by Clyde Tombaugh relating his discovery of Pluto.
http://perso.orange.fr/olivier.granier/mec...
Neptune and Pluto
Mathematical discovery of planets
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...
Asteroid Discovery Circumstances
For each minor planet: Where and when found, and by whom.
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/dc_home.html
Neptune's Discovery
Article in Astronomy Magazine.
http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/A...
The Face of the Moon
A catalog for an exhibition of rare books and maps. Includes sample pictures from Galileo to the Apollo missions.
http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhi...
Orbits and Gravitation
The development of the mathematics of planetary motion.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...
Is Mars Habitable?
A. R. Wallace's 1907 critique of Lowell's Book "Mars and Its Canals"
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S730.h...
The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery
On-line version of the book by William Sheehan.
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/m...
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2006