| Edition |
First TED Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
108 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 19 cm. |
| Series Title |
Ted books.
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Ted books
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A wild frontier -- Things that hit the Earth -- Rules of asteroid hunting -- The first asteroid -- Terrestrial asteroid hunting -- My favorite telescope -- The giggle factor -- The Planetary Defense Coordination Office. |
| Summary |
In Asteroid Hunters, author Carrie Nugent describes what known impact asteroids have had: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the earth-sized hole Shoemaker Levy 9 left in Jupiter just a few decades ago, how the meteorite that bursted over Chelyabinsk in Russia could have started a war, and unlucky Ms. Anne Hodges - the only person (that we know of) in US history to be the victim of a direct hit. Nugent also introduces the telescope she uses to detect near-Earth asteroids. Ultimately, detection is the key to preventing asteroid impact, and these specialized scientists are working to prevent the unthinkable from happening. |
| Subject(S) |
Asteroids.
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Space flight to asteroids.
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Outer space -- Exploration.
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| Added Name(S) |
Lemanski, Mike, 1986- illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781501120084 |
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1501120085 |
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