Del Norte Public Library

This title will cover how asteroids and meteoroids came to be, what they are made of, where most of them are found, and what happens when they collide with planets, like Earth! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.--

Explores the mysteries of rocks that travel vast distances through space, sometimes passing through Earth's atmosphere and sometimes landing on the surface.

Describes the origins, characteristics, and future of the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.

Offers an introduction to asteroids, comets, and meteoroids that looks at what each of them are, how people have observed them, and how scientists monitor them today.

Examines the nature of outer space, our solar system, and our universe, including descriptions of the sun, moon, and planets, as well as constellations, nebulas and black holes.

This book introduces the bodies in space also known as planetoids, minor planets, or when they stray from their paths, meteoroids.

This book discusses our solar system, describing how our sun, a star, has eight planets, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and moons.

"Introductory text and full-color images explore the physical characteristics and discovery of the solar system. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.

An illustrated book of projects that demonstrate how the universe works.

"Readers will want to grab a telescope and explore the night skies after finishing this overview of our solar system. Our solar system consists of eight planets, as well as numerous moons, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. For thousands of years, humans believed that Earth was at the center of the Universe, but all of that changed in the 17th century. Astronomers like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton proposed...