Mission to Pluto : the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt
(2016)
By:
Carson, Mary Kay
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
J/629.435/CARSON,M
0 Holds on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
DESCRIPTION
73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780544416710, 0544416716
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
A long-awaited encounter -- Mission brief: The journey to Pluto -- Plutonian dreams -- Mission brief: Pluto primer -- Built to go the distance -- Mission brief: The spacecraft -- Sprinting across the solar system -- Mission brief: Mini-moons -- Up close and personal -- Mission brief: Pluto encounter -- Meet the neighbors -- Mission brief: The Kuiper Belt
"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."--
Ages 10-12
Grades 4 to 6
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