How hot is the sun? How many stars shine in the sky? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Your mission is to answer these questions and more! Exploring Our Universe guides you on exciting adventures through the wonders of deep space. Investigate fiery comets, faraway planets, and mysterious black holes. Meet astronomers and astronauts who changed the history of space exploration. And study the steller technology that helped them do so.
Explains the differences between comets, asteroids, and meteors, describes the various kinds of small objects that may be found in the solar system, and provides information on the search for these phenomena.
Asteroids Comets & Meteors Sb-Ou
Explores how comets, meteors, and asteroids move through our solar system, and explains the ingredients that make a comet's tail and other topics
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.
As more asteroids enter our solar system, our chances of a collision increase by the day. This work examines the impact phenomenon describing the importance of Deathrock collisions in the...
Looks at the properties and characteristics of such objects found in Outer Space as asteroids, comets, and meteors.
Chronicles the formation of the solar system, particularly how asteroids, comets, and meteors were formed, and relates how astronomers learn about the existence and characteristics of these bodies.
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 229 on minor bodies of the solar system, for researchers and graduate students of planetary sciences.
Around 65 million years ago, something huge may have slammed into the earth. At about the same time the dinosaurs disappeared. Did their disappearance have something to do with a comet or a meteor? Book jacket.
Describes and explains a meteor, a chunk of metallic or stony matter, and a comet, a lump of ice and dust.