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What is a shooting star?
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Isaac Asimov |
Explains the nature of meteors or "shooting stars" and how they are different from real stars. |
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman |
E-book extra: Neil Gaiman's "Writing and the Imagination."In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England, there is a small hamlet that has stood on a jut of granite for 600 years. Just to the… |
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Meteors
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Billy Aronson |
Explains such things as the difference between a meteor, a meteoroid, and a meteorite and what happens when an asteroid or comet gets too close to the earth. |
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Meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids
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Ray Spangenburg,Kit Moser |
Explores the mysteries of rocks that travel vast distances through space, sometimes passing through Earth's atmosphere and sometimes landing on the surface. |
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Hedgehog and the shooting stars
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M. Christina Butler |
Woodland friends gather to watch shooting stars, and help each other through dangers along the way. |
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The Sentinel
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Arthur C. Clarke |
From the Introduction...
Today's readers are indeed fortunate; this really is the Golden Age of science fiction. There are dozens of authors at work today who can match all but the giants of the p… |
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Asteroids, comets, and meteors
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Miller, Ron |
During the formation of the solar system, not all of the materials in the vast could of dust and gas were used. What happened to the remaining ice, metal, and rock? It formed what became known as ast… |
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Star touched
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A. L. Kaplan |
Eight years after a meteor devastated Earth's population and gave eighteen-year-old Tatiana special abilities, she seeks refuge in a small town where society has broken down. |
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The Big Wish
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Brandon Robshaw |
When a shooting star grants Sam a million wishes (as long as they are logically possible) he thinks that he will be able to make his life better at his new school--but he soon learns that you have to… |
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Comets and meteors
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Robin Kerrod |
Provides information about the origins, composition, and appearances of comets, meteors, and asteroids. |
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Could an asteroid hit Earth?
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Rosalind Mist |
Looks at the properties and characteristics of such objects found in Outer Space as asteroids, comets, and meteors. |
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Comets and meteors
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Chana Stiefel |
What has a head, two tails, and shoots across the sky? A comet. Coming from the far edges of the solar system, most comets travel around the Sun, while meteors appear as flashing streaks of light in … |
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The wishing sky
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Joan Hiatt Harlow |
Madison and her grandmother take a picnic up on Big Hill one night to make wishes on shooting stars. |
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Meteor!
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Patricia Polacco |
A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family. |
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Comets and meteors
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Heather Couper |
Discusses the origins and behavior of cosmic debris, such as shooting stars, meteors, meteorites, and comets. |
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Comets, asteroids and meteors
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Steve Parker |
Describes the smaller bodies in space, how they are distinguished from one another and from the planets and moons, their sizes and where they are in the Solar system. |
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Voltaire's Micromegas
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Elizabeth Hall |
A retelling of Voltaire’s story of a visit to Earth by a 20-mile tall giant from Sirius and his companion, a mile-high “dwarf” from Saturn. |
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Comets and meteors
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Isaac Asimov |
Discusses the characteristics of comets and meteors and relates famous events connected with them. |
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Shooting stars
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Herbert S. Zim |
Discusses some famous meteorites, what happens when they hit the earth, the elements of which they are composed, what their source may have been, different types of meteorites, their speed and moveme… |
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No more Mr. Smart Guy
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Adam Beechen |
Tired of being a boy genius, Jimmy hooks himself up to his Brain-Drain 8000 machine, but his friends try to reverse the process when they see a meteor headed toward Retroville. |
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