Author: Seymour Simon
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781442057449
Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Explores how comets, meteors, and asteroids move through our solar system, and explains the ingredients that make a comet's tail and other topics
Author: Mary-Jane Knight
Publisher: Fast Track: Our Solar System
ISBN: 9781781213681
Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Asteroids, comets, and other space rocks rush around the solar system. Learn about these fascinating flying masses and their place in the solar system."
Author: Steven N. Koppes
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822528616
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Describes the role that collisions with meteors, comets, and asteroids have played in the history of Earth and other planets in the solar system and examines what is being done to protect Earth from future collisions.
Author: Ron Miller
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0761372792
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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From earliest times, humans have wondered about the sky above them and have studied all visible objects. People began to identify differences between stars and planets, and as technology advanced with telescopes and space probes, they sought deeper understanding of the millions of bits of debris rocketing through the solar system. Scientists determined that most of these objects are left over from the creation of the planets and their moons. They classified these leftovers into categories such as asteroids, comets, and meteors. In this book, we'll explore seven wonders of asteroids, comets, and meteors. Ceres is a huge mountain-sized asteroid that orbits with other asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. Other marvels include Ganymede, the largest asteroid in the group called Earthgrazers or Near-Earth Objects, and Halley's comet, a ball of ice, that passes Earth every seventy-five or so years. We'll also explore the amazing impact that space debris can have on planets and moons. The Borealis Basin, a wondrous crater more than 5,000 miles across, formed when an asteroid collided with Mars in the ancient past. Then we will travel to the far-off Kuiper belt, where as many as 200 million icy bodies orbit, and wonder at the mystery of planetlike objects, such as Pluto and Charon. Finally, we’ll can experience a space wonder firsthand by standing outside on a night in August to watch the spectacular Perseid meteor shower fill the sky.
Author: Cynthia Pratt Nicolson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550745801
Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Describes the characteristics of comets, asteroids, and meteorites, and suggests a variety of simple experiments.
Author: Margaret Weitekamp
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613124961
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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People, children especially, have been baffled, bewildered, and even outraged by the fact that Pluto is no longer called a planet. Through whimsical artwork and an entertaining dialogue format, Pluto’s Secret explains the true story of this distant world. Providing a history of the small, icy world from its discovery and naming to its recent reclassification, this book presents a fascinating look at how scientists organize and classify our solar system as they gain new insights into how it works and what types of things exist within it. The book includes a glossary and bibliography. Praise for Pluto's Secret "Pairing a lighthearted narrative in a hand-lettered†“style typeface with informally drawn cartoon illustrations, this lively tale of astronomical revelations begins with the search for Planet X.†? —Kirkus Reviews "This picture book offers a fresh, positive perspective on Pluto, showing that its change of status is not a demotion but a correction." —Booklist "Light-hearted imagining of a gregarious Pluto.†? —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Fun reading... The book provides a factual history of our faraway 'dwarf,' and on its companion icy worlds, and on the discovery of Kuiper-like bands around other stars." —School Library Journal Award New York Public Library’s annual Children’s Books list: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2013
Author: Seymour Simon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439051491
Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Book Description
Explores how comets, meteors, and asteroids move through our solar system, and explains the ingredients that make a comet's tail and other topics.
Author: Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438131860
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Praise for the previous edition:" ... offer[s] detail-rich discussions ..."
Author: Stuart Atkinson
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 1410945677
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Book Description
Describes what it would be like to visit space and examine comets, asteroids, and meteors.
Author: Roy A. Gallant
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780761410348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Book Description
An introduction to the celestial phenomena of asteroids, meteoroids and meteorites, and comets.
