Killer Rocks from Outer Space: Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites

Killer Rocks from Outer Space: Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites
ISBN-10
0822528614
ISBN-13
9780822528616
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
112
Language
English
Published
2004-01-01
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Author
Steven N. Koppes

Description

Describes the role that collisions with meteors, comets, and asteroids have played in the history of Earth and other planets in the solar system and examines what is being done to protect Earth from future collisions.

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