For the first time in two centuries a new population of planetary objects - the Kuiper Belt - has been found. This volume tells the story of how theoretical phy... » 

For the first time in two centuries a new population of planetary objects - the Kuiper Belt - has been found. This volume tells the story of how theoretical physicists decided that there must be a population of unknown bodies beyond Neptune and how a small band of astronomers set out to find them. «