The Asteroid Belt: A Complete Guide to Space Rocks, Ceres, Vesta, Meteorites, Planetary Defense, the DART Mission, and Asteroid Mining for Kids Ages 8–12: 5 (The Solar System Explorer Series) - Tapa blanda

The Asteroid Belt (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Did you know that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ismostly empty space - so empty that every spacecraft we have ever sentthrough it has passed safely without hitting a single rock? Thatmeteorites falling to Earth carry amino acids, the building blocks oflife, that formed in space billions of years ago? That in September 2022, humanity deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid andsuccessfully changed its orbit for the first time in history? And thatthe dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid impact - but that sameimpact may have eventually led to the rise of humans? Inside this book, readers will discover: The Real Asteroid Belt - Why the densely packed asteroidfields of science fiction movies are completely wrong, how empty thereal belt actually is, and why it still matters enormously as ascientific treasure chest from the solar system's earliest historyCeres: The Dwarf Planet - The largest object in the asteroidbelt and the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system, revealed byNASA's Dawn spacecraft to have mysterious bright spots of sodiumcarbonate salt, evidence of a subsurface ocean, and a cryovolcanicdome that formed within the past 200 million yearsVesta: A Planetary Embryo - The second largest asteroid, adifferentiated world with an iron core, a basaltic crust, and twoenormous ancient impact craters covering most of its southernhemisphere, connected to the HED meteorites that rain down on EarthHow the Belt Formed - Why no planet ever formed betweenMars and Jupiter, the role of Jupiter's gravity in disrupting planetformation, the dramatic Grand Tack hypothesis in which Jupiter migratedinward through the solar system and back, and how this migration mayhave delivered Earth's waterNear-Earth Asteroids - The thousands of asteroids withorbits that bring them close to Earth, how they escape from the mainbelt through gravitational resonances, and the famous Apophis asteroidwhose discovery briefly suggested a 2.7 percent chance of hitting Earthin 2029 Meteorites - How pieces of asteroids travel from the beltto Earth over millions of years, the different types of meteorites andwhat they reveal about their parent bodies, why Antarctica is the bestplace on Earth to find meteorites, and what the amino acids incarbonaceous chondrites tell us about the origin of lifeAsteroid Mining - The staggering mineral wealth containedin metallic asteroids, why water is actually the most immediatelyvaluable asteroid resource for space exploration, the technicalchallenges of mining in near-zero gravity, and the commercial companiesand government programs already developing plans for asteroid resourceutilization Every chapter ends with a Did You Know? feature packed withextraordinary facts, and the book includes a comprehensive 31-termglossary of asteroid and planetary science vocabulary. Perfect for: Middle grade students ages 8 to 12 in grades 3through 7. School science projects and reports on asteroids, the solarsystem, space exploration, planetary defense, and the origin of life.Teachers and homeschool educators. Science fair projects. Any youngreader fascinated by space rocks, ancient catastrophes, and humanity'splan to defend Earth from asteroid impacts. The rocky middle ground of the solar system shaped Earth's pastand may determine its future. This book tells t Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798187445202

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