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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
On February 15th, car cameras and cellphones captured a blinding streak that flashed across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains, followed by an explosion that injured some 1,500 people. The meteor, weighing around 10,000 tons, was the largest object to burst in the atmosphere since 1908. Within days, Nova crews were in Russia following impact scientists as they hunted for debris from the explosion and clues to the meteor's origin.
5) Meteors
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Language
English
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Description
Blast off on a trip to discover the fascinating world of meteors. In this image-packed book, kids will learn all about these objects hurtling through space and into our atmosphere. Written in an easy-to-grasp style to encourage the scientists and explorers of tomorrow!
6) Space rocks!
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Asteroids, meteorites, comets, and more! Join Jet along with his friends Sydney, Sean, and Mindy as they take off on exciting outer space explorations. Watch as Jet's mom zooms the kids to space in their flying saucer, as the kids conduct a series of tests to determine if a unique rock is indeed a meteorite, and as the neighborhood hosts a stargazing party!
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
Author
Series
Comet cycle volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective. Jack became a shell of a man; his promising career as a biologist crumbling alongside the meteor strikes that altered weather patterns and caused a massive drought. It isn’t until five years later...
12) The sky vault
Author
Series
Comet cycle volume 3
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. Now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds the atmosphere. When a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning, the sky opens and the aircraft vanishes…but only for a minute. When the flight lands, everyone on board and in the...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This nonfiction book for elementary-school-age children details the steps that brought a meteor from outer space, across the eastern US, to the roof of a car in Peekskill, New York, and thereafter to be verified, tested, and exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History. Hartland breaks down complex actions and processes in kid-friendly terms and includes pages of fascinating meteor details"--Provided by publisher.
15) Impact
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Wyman Ford is called in to investigate the mysterious exit hole of a meteorite that amazingly passed straight through the earth, what he finds defies all that we know about our universe. He and his team of scientists must figure out how to destroy an alien doomsday weapon in the next sixty hours. Their only tools are what is already in orbit around Mars - the Orbiter, the Mars lander on the surface, and several smaller satellites orbiting the...
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Language
English
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Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars; in fact, she's obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart. Her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies. So when a tiny meteorite literally...
18) Down to Earth
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old aspiring geologist Henry Bower investigates the meteorite that crash lands in the hayfield, discovering a rock that will change his family, his town, and even himself.
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