Space garbage / Ruth Owen.
Are people in danger of being hit by falling space garbage? Readers find the answer as they learn about what space garbage is and how it could affect other objects in space and people on Earth. Through comprehensive text, readers learn about the many kinds of space garbage, including pieces of rockets! They also find fact boxes designed to give them even more information about space garbage. This otherworldly problem is shown in vivid detail through amazing photographs. Readers will be excited to learn about space through a closer look at the garbage orbiting Earth.
Record details
- ISBN: 1477758631
- ISBN: 1477758666
- ISBN: 1489850309
- ISBN: 9781477758632
- ISBN: 9781477758663
- ISBN: 9781489850300
- Physical Description: 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Publisher: New York : PowerKids Press, 2015.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 32) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A Junkyard in Space 4 -- Around and Around 6 -- What's Up There? 8 -- How Big & Space Debris? 10 -- Tracking Space Debris 12 -- Anti-Satellite Weapons 14 -- Garbage Collisions 16 -- Damage to Spacecraft 18 -- Safe Inside the Pizza Box 20 -- Shields For Spacecraft 22 -- Down to Earth 24 -- A Runaway Problem? 26 -- Big Space Cleanup 28. |
| Target Audience Note: | 3456 Childrens Plus, Inc. 700 Lexile. P Fountas and Pinnell. |
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| Subject: | Space debris > Juvenile literature. Space pollution > Juvenile literature. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Lee County Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lee County Main Library | J 363.72 O (Text) | 33262003245591 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
Are people in danger of being hit by falling space garbage? Readers find the answer as they learn about what space garbage is and how it could affect other objects in space and people on Earth. Through comprehensive text, readers learn about the many kinds of space garbage, including pieces of rockets! They also find fact boxes designed to give them even more information about space garbage. This otherworldly problem is shown in vivid detail through amazing photographs. Readers will be excited to learn about space through a closer look at the garbage orbiting Earth.
