Asteroids, comets, and meteors
""Presents facts about the composition and history of exploration of asteroids, comets, and meteors and features large illustrations and photographs."--
| Main Author: | Kilzer, Nicholas (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
World Book, Inc.,
[2020]
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| Series: |
Our solar system (World Book, Inc.)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The smaller residents of the solar system
- Asteroids: not quite planets
- What asteroids look like
- Asteroid shapes
- The main asteroid belt
- Asteroid composition
- Near-Earth asteroids
- Asteroid preparedness
- Studying asteroids
- Hayabusa2: shooting an asteroid
- An interstellar visitor
- Comets
- The heart of a comet
- Regular visitors
- The Kuiper belt
- The oort cloud
- Famous comets
- Exploring comets
- Landing on a comet
- Comet impact!
- Comets in history and folklore
- Meteors: visitors from space
- Types of meteorites
- Finding meteorites
- From the moon and Mars!
- The Tunguska event
- Meteor showers
- Russia fireball.