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    14 Fun Facts About Asteroids: Educational Version
    14 Fun Facts About Asteroids: Educational Version
    14 Fun Facts About Asteroids: Educational Version
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    14 Fun Facts About Asteroids: Educational Version

    By Jeannie Meekins

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    Circling the heavens is a belt of rock and dust. Lying between Mars and Jupiter and orbiting our sun, The Main Asteroid Belt was once thought to be the remnants of an exploded planet or the beginnings of a planet that never formed.
    How much do you know about asteroids? Can you answer these questions:
    Where is The Main Asteroid Belt?
    How many asteroids are there in The Main Asteroid Belt?
    What was the first asteroid discovered?
    How much mass does The Main Asteroid Belt have?
    How fast do asteroids travel?

    Find out the answers to these questions and more and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts.
    Ages 8 and up.
    All measurements in American and metric.

    Educational versions have CCSS activities.

    LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLearningIsland.com
    Release dateOct 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301038572
    14 Fun Facts About Asteroids: Educational Version
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    Jeannie Meekins

    Jeannie Meekins is an Australian writer who lives with her children and a couple of cats who think they own the computer. And if her dog could read, he’d be jealous, so it’s lucky that he can’t. Jeannie has also written over 10 books for children, many available through LearningIsland.com

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    14 Fun Facts About Asteroids - Jeannie Meekins

    14 FUN FACTS ABOUT

    ASTEROIDS

    By Jeannie Meekins

    A LearningIsland.com

    15 - Minute Book

    We have used many sources to research these facts and they are accurate at time of publishing. The more we explore the wonders of space and our universe, the more information we are discovering.

    Editor: Jennifer Robinson

    Title page pictures by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

    Smashwords Edition

    (c) Copyright 2012 Jeannie Meekins. All rights reserved.

    Published by LearningIsland.com.

    This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please purchase your own copy from any of several online e-book stores. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    14 Fun Facts About Asteroids / Jeannie Meekins

    Summary: A brief look at some fun facts about asteroids.

    1. Asteroids. Juvenile Literature. 2. Space. Juvenile Literature. 3. Dwarf Planets. Juvenile Literature.

    Created in USA

    Words: 1893

    Reading Level: 6.9

    Ages 9 and up.

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    Circling the heavens is a belt of rock and dust. Lying between Mars and Jupiter and orbiting our sun, The Main Asteroid Belt was once thought to be the remnants of an exploded planet or the beginnings of a planet that never formed. Let’s find out more about this exciting, mysterious area of space.

    Fact 1: The first asteroids discovered were thought to be planets.

    In 1766, while translating another astronomer’s work, Johann Daniel Titius noted a pattern in the layout of the planets. He calculated

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