The Far Planets
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This issue’s cover (photograph by Kamil Vojnar) is from Siobhan Dowd’s Bog Child. Siobhan Dowd is remembered by Julia Eccleshare. Thanks to Random House Children’s Books for their help with this January cover.
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The Far Planets
One of a series on ‘Discovering Space’ with extensively illustrated descriptions of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and of the space probes sent to explore them. There is a spread on the dwarf planets, including Pluto, which has lost its planetary status. Moons and rings are described. There are a Timeline, Glossary, Index and Webfinder. A thoughtful reader might well infer (wrongly) from the specification of a ‘Distance from the Sun’ for each far planet that this distance is fixed, so that the orbits are circular.
