Author: World Book, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716624752
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"An introduction to Neptune, comets, and dwarf planets for primary and intermediate grade students with information about their features and exploration. Includes charts and diagrams, a list of highlights for each chapter, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Neptune, Comets, and Dwarf Planets
Author: World Book, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716624752
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"An introduction to Neptune, comets, and dwarf planets for primary and intermediate grade students with information about their features and exploration. Includes charts and diagrams, a list of highlights for each chapter, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716624752
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"An introduction to Neptune, comets, and dwarf planets for primary and intermediate grade students with information about their features and exploration. Includes charts and diagrams, a list of highlights for each chapter, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Neptune, Comets, and Dwarf Planets
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716618911
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"An introduction to Neptune, comets, and dwarf planets for primary and intermediate grade students with information about their features and exploration. Includes charts and diagrams, a list of highlights for each chapter, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716618911
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"An introduction to Neptune, comets, and dwarf planets for primary and intermediate grade students with information about their features and exploration. Includes charts and diagrams, a list of highlights for each chapter, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
The Outer Solar System
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1615300511
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Beyond Earths small, red neighbor Mars lie the gaseous, giant planets of the Outer Solar System. This book investigates these behemoths and dwarf planet Pluto, as well as other curiosities within the solar systems farthest reaches, such as asteroid fields and the Kuiper belt.
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1615300511
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Beyond Earths small, red neighbor Mars lie the gaseous, giant planets of the Outer Solar System. This book investigates these behemoths and dwarf planet Pluto, as well as other curiosities within the solar systems farthest reaches, such as asteroid fields and the Kuiper belt.
Neptune, Comets, and Dwarf Planets
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716695332
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"An introduction to Neptune, comets, and dwarf planets for primary and intermediate grade students with information about their features and exploration. Includes charts and diagrams, a list of highlights for each chapter, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716695332
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"An introduction to Neptune, comets, and dwarf planets for primary and intermediate grade students with information about their features and exploration. Includes charts and diagrams, a list of highlights for each chapter, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Guide to the Universe: Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets
Author: Andrew S. Rivkin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313344337
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Geared toward students, this guide provides an overview of the small bodies that orbit the sun. This volume in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series covers asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets—those small bodies that revolve the Sun—and provides readers with the most up-to-date understanding of the current state of scientific knowledge about them. Scientifically sound, but written with the student in mind, Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets is an excellent first step for researching the exciting scientific discoveries of the smallest celestial bodies in the solar system. The book will introduce students to all of the areas of research surrounding the subject, answering many intriguing questions. It defines a dwarf planet and explains why Pluto is one. It looks at how such small bodies form, what they are made of, and what kind of atmospheres might they have. And it asks—and answers—whether asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets present a hazard to the Earth or to spacecraft.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313344337
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Geared toward students, this guide provides an overview of the small bodies that orbit the sun. This volume in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series covers asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets—those small bodies that revolve the Sun—and provides readers with the most up-to-date understanding of the current state of scientific knowledge about them. Scientifically sound, but written with the student in mind, Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets is an excellent first step for researching the exciting scientific discoveries of the smallest celestial bodies in the solar system. The book will introduce students to all of the areas of research surrounding the subject, answering many intriguing questions. It defines a dwarf planet and explains why Pluto is one. It looks at how such small bodies form, what they are made of, and what kind of atmospheres might they have. And it asks—and answers—whether asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets present a hazard to the Earth or to spacecraft.
Dawn of Small Worlds
Author: Michael Moltenbrey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319230034
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book gives a detailed introduction to the thousands and thousands of smaller bodies in the solar system. Written for interested laymen, amateur astronomers and students it describes the nature and origin of asteroids, dwarf planets and comets, and gives detailed information about their role in the solar system. The author nicely reviews the history of small-world-exploration and describes past, current and future space craft missions studying small worlds, and presents their results. Readers will learn that small solar system worlds have a dramatically different nature and appearance than the planets. Even though research activity on small worlds has increased in the recent past many of their properties are still in the dark and need further research.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319230034
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book gives a detailed introduction to the thousands and thousands of smaller bodies in the solar system. Written for interested laymen, amateur astronomers and students it describes the nature and origin of asteroids, dwarf planets and comets, and gives detailed information about their role in the solar system. The author nicely reviews the history of small-world-exploration and describes past, current and future space craft missions studying small worlds, and presents their results. Readers will learn that small solar system worlds have a dramatically different nature and appearance than the planets. Even though research activity on small worlds has increased in the recent past many of their properties are still in the dark and need further research.
Destination Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
Author: Giles Sparrow
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781435834460
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Examines the outer planets, and discusses their moons, interiors, atmospheres, locations, and exploration.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781435834460
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Examines the outer planets, and discusses their moons, interiors, atmospheres, locations, and exploration.
On the Origin of Planets
Author: M. M. Woolfson
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 1848165994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
The book begins with a historical review of four major theories for the origin of the Solar System in particular, or of planets in general, which highlight the major problems that need to be solved by any plausible theory. In many theories, including that which form the major theme of this book, the formation of planets and stars is intimately linked, so four chapters are devoted to the processes that can be described as the birth, life and death of stars. Recent observations that have revealed the existence of planets around many Sun-like stars are described in detail, followed by a clear exposition of the Capture Theory for the origin of planets. Many aspects of this theory are illustrated with sophisticated computer modelling that convincingly demonstrates the plausibility of the theory. The Capture Theory is in complete accord with all observations, including the estimate it gives for the proportion of Sun-like stars with planets. It is the only theory that sits comfortably with all present observational and theoretical constraints. The general theory of planet formation does not explain the detailed structure of the Solar System. An early postulated collision of two major planets is shown to explain many disparate features of the Solar System the nature of the terrestrial planets, surface features of the Moon and its relationship with Earth, asteroids, comets and dwarf planets, the relationship between Neptune, Triton and Pluto and the characteristics of meteorites, including the isotopic anomalies found in them. The postulate of a planetary collision is given support by a 2009 NASA observation of the residue of such an event around a distant young star.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 1848165994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
The book begins with a historical review of four major theories for the origin of the Solar System in particular, or of planets in general, which highlight the major problems that need to be solved by any plausible theory. In many theories, including that which form the major theme of this book, the formation of planets and stars is intimately linked, so four chapters are devoted to the processes that can be described as the birth, life and death of stars. Recent observations that have revealed the existence of planets around many Sun-like stars are described in detail, followed by a clear exposition of the Capture Theory for the origin of planets. Many aspects of this theory are illustrated with sophisticated computer modelling that convincingly demonstrates the plausibility of the theory. The Capture Theory is in complete accord with all observations, including the estimate it gives for the proportion of Sun-like stars with planets. It is the only theory that sits comfortably with all present observational and theoretical constraints. The general theory of planet formation does not explain the detailed structure of the Solar System. An early postulated collision of two major planets is shown to explain many disparate features of the Solar System the nature of the terrestrial planets, surface features of the Moon and its relationship with Earth, asteroids, comets and dwarf planets, the relationship between Neptune, Triton and Pluto and the characteristics of meteorites, including the isotopic anomalies found in them. The postulate of a planetary collision is given support by a 2009 NASA observation of the residue of such an event around a distant young star.
The Dwarf Planet Pluto
Author: Kristi Lew
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761445531
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
With its age-appropriate text, helpful charts, colorful design, and vivid illustrations and photography, this series is perfect for students working on reports and projects or for the budding astronomer fascinated by what exists beyond our planet.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761445531
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
With its age-appropriate text, helpful charts, colorful design, and vivid illustrations and photography, this series is perfect for students working on reports and projects or for the budding astronomer fascinated by what exists beyond our planet.
The Dwarf Planets
Author: Steve Kortenkamp
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429653973
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Describes the five dwarf planets in our solar system, including the birth of the solar system and the dwarf planets' orbits around the Sun"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429653973
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Describes the five dwarf planets in our solar system, including the birth of the solar system and the dwarf planets' orbits around the Sun"--Provided by publisher.