Killer rocks from outer space : asteroids, comets, and meteorites / Steven N. Koppes.
by Koppes, Steven N.
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BookSeries: Discovery! (Lerner Publications Company): Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications, c2004Description: 111 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0822528614.Subject(s): Asteroids | Comets | MeteoritesDDC classification: 523.5 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 109) and index.
Recognizing meteorites and impact craters -- Identifying impact scars -- Impact and the dinosaurs -- Impact and periodic mass extinctions -- Impact, the planets, and the origin of life on earth -- The continuing threat -- Defending planet earth.
Wilson's Junior High School, November 2005
School Library Journal, March 2004
Library Media Connection starred, April 2004
Booklist, January 2004
Horn Book, April 2004
The Science Teacher (N.S.T.A.), February 2004
Science Books & Films (A.A.A.S.), March 2004
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.
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5-8 Follett Library Resources
Accelerated Reader AR MG 9.0 4.0 101039
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