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    Explore Comets and Asteroids!: With 25 Great Projects
    Explore Comets and Asteroids!: With 25 Great Projects
    Explore Comets and Asteroids!: With 25 Great Projects
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    Explore Comets and Asteroids!: With 25 Great Projects

    By Anita Yasuda and Bryan Stone

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    Have you ever wished on a shooting star? Shooting stars often appear when the earth passes through the dust and debris left by a passing comet. Explore Comets and Asteroids! With 25 Amazing Projects takes readers ages 7 to 10 on a fantastic journey through space, where they investigate comets, asteroids, and lesser-known space wonders through 25 experiments and activities designed for curious kids.

    Readers learn about everything from the first asteroid discovered to many current spacecraft missions. They also investigate famous comets, such Halley's comet, which returns faithfully every 75 or 76 years.

    Learning about comets and asteroids means asking lots of questions. Could we live and work on asteroids? Why do we only occasionally see comets? Kids find the answers and more through hands-on projects and experiments that encourage them to be curious about how and why things work. Activities range from mapping the positions of celestial objects to designing spacecraft for asteroid missions. By combining science with activities, fun facts, and cartoons, kids will investigate, create, design, test, and redesign. Explore Comets and Asteroids! inspires kids to want to know more about how these rocky worlds formed and how they may have shaped life on Earth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateJul 11, 2017
    ISBN9781619305137
    Explore Comets and Asteroids!: With 25 Great Projects
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    Anita Yasuda

    Anita Yasuda is the author of more than one hundred books for children. She lives with her family and her dog in Huntington Beach, California.

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      Explore Comets and Asteroids! - Anita Yasuda

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      CONTENTS

      Timeline

      Solar System Map

      Introduction

      Let’s Explore Comets and Asteroids!

      Chapter 1

      All About Asteroids

      Chapter 2

      Investigating Asteroids

      Chapter 3

      Minerals, Mining, and Asteroids

      Chapter 4

      Curious About Comets

      Chapter 5

      Cool Comets

      Chapter 6

      Mysterious Meteors

      Metric Conversions

      Index

      Interested in primary sources? Look for this icon.

      Use a smartphone or tablet app to scan the QR code and explore more! You can find a list of URLs on the Resources page.

      If the QR code doesn’t work, try searching the Internet with the Keyword Prompts to find other helpful sources.

      KEYWORD PROMPTS

      TIMELINE

      66 MILLION YEARS AGO:

      An asteroid slams into Earth and is thought to have led to the loss of 80 percent of life on Earth, including dinosaurs.

      240 BCE:

      Chinese astronomers are the first to record what is later named Halley’s Comet.

      1070s CE:

      Halley’s Comet is embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry.

      1577:

      Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe makes careful measurements of a comet’s path, leading him to believe that a comet’s orbit extends beyond the moon.

      1759:

      The comet returns on March 13, as predicted by Edmond Halley, and is named after him, Halley’s Comet.

      1786:

      German astronomer Caroline Herschel becomes the first woman to discover a comet. She goes on to find seven more.

      1801:

      Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the first known asteroid, Ceres, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

      1833:

      The Leonid meteor storm amazes sky watchers in the United States.

      1847:

      Maria Mitchell discovers a new comet.

      1891:

      Max Wolf becomes the first person to discover an asteroid using photography.

      1898:

      Gustav Witt discovers the asteroid Eros, which is one of the largest asteroids ever found near Earth.

      1920:

      The world’s largest meteorite, the Hoba Meteorite, is discovered by a farmer in Namibia, Africa.

      1943:

      Kenneth Edgeworth suggests that there is a disc of comets beyond Neptune’s orbit.

      1950:

      Jan Oort predicts that there is a huge cloud of comets beyond the sun.

      1951:

      Gerard Kuiper suggests that short-period comets lie outside the orbit of Neptune.

      1985:

      The International Cometary Explorer, ICE, becomes the first spacecraft to fly through the tail of a comet.

      1986:

      Several space probes are launched to study Halley’s comet.

      1991:

      The Galileo spacecraft obtains the first up-close images of an asteroid (Gaspra) and a first moon orbiting an asteroid.

      1992:

      David Jewitt and Jane Luu discover the first Kuiper belt object.

      JULY 16–22 1994:

      Fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crash into Jupiter, leaving massive dark scars.

      1998:

      The Near Earth Object Program begins, tracking asteroids and comets that could be a hazard to Earth.

      2001:

      The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker space probe lands on the asteroid Eros.

      2004:

      The spacecraft Rosetta begins its journey to rendezvous with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

      2005:

      Astronomers find the largest Kuiper belt object, the asteroid Eris.

      2006:

      Hayabusa becomes the first probe to land, collect samples, and take off from an asteroid.

      2006:

      The International Astronomical Union reclassifies Pluto and Ceres as dwarf planets.

      2012:

      Dawn becomes the first probe to orbit objects in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

      2014:

      Rosetta becomes the first spacecraft to touch down on the surface of a comet.

      SOLAR SYSTEM MAP

      INTRODUCTION

      LET’S EXPLORE COMETS AND ASTEROIDS!

      Would you like to be part of an amazing adventure? The sun has set. Look up! It’s time to explore the solar system!

      A magical world of stars ripples across the night. Eight planets and millions of asteroids orbit around the sun. There are also visitors to our night sky that do not act like any other objects we can see. They look like fuzzy balls of light. Some of them have lizard-like tails. They are called comets.

      WORDS TO KNOW

      solar system: a family of eight planets and their moons that orbit the sun.

      asteroid: a small rocky object that orbits the sun.

      orbit: the path an object in space takes around a star, planet, or moon.

      comet: a ball of ice and dust that orbits the sun.

      WORDS TO KNOW

      crater: a large hole in the ground caused by the impact of something such as a piece of an asteroid or a bomb.

      celestial body: a star, planet, moon, or other object in space, such as an asteroid or comet.

      astronomy: the study of the universe, especially the celestial bodies.

      astronomer: a person who studies the stars, planets, and other objects in space.

      Comets and asteroids have stories to tell. These stories are about the history of the solar system. You’ll hear these stories as you zip through

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