Destination Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors
- ISBN-10
- 1435834496
- ISBN-13
- 9781435834491
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-08-15
- Publisher
- The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
- Author
- Giles Sparrow
Description
Discusses the debris that can be found in the solar system, including how they are formed, what they are made of, and how they were discovered.
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