"Dawn of Small Worlds: Dwarf Planets, Asteroids and Comets" by M. Moltenbrey. Reviewed in The Observatory, 2017 February, page 28. Comment is superfluous.Scientific accuracy appears to be rather patchy, with much of the content having been extacted from Wikipedia, re-worded in part, and occasionally misinterpreted somewhat.
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"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly" - Nietzsche
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Re: From a book review
The book is being criticized in other reviews for poor grammar and uneven writing.
Contact details for the author Michael Moltenbrey:
Contact details for the author Michael Moltenbrey:
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Re: From a book review
If the book really does contain content lifted from Wikipedia, it probably shouldn't be cited as a source in the Rosetta (spacecraft) (T-H-L) article.
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That would scarcely be the first time something like that has happened. There is even a name for the phenomenon: citogenesis.AndyTheGrump wrote:If the book really does contain content lifted from Wikipedia, it probably shouldn't be cited as a source in the Rosetta (spacecraft) (T-H-L) article.
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It's marginally better than those sham "publishers" who lift the Wiki article text wholesale (including typos, bad formatting, and vandalism), bind it and sell it on Amazon as a book with a bunch of fake authors listed.