meteorites

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meteorites

Comets, asteroids and meteorites

1999
Studies comets, asteroids and meteorites and answers such questions as what they are made of, how comets are predicted, and how big asteroids are, and includes projects designed to help children learn more about them.

Killer rocks from outer space

asteroids, comets, and meteorites
2004
Describes the role that collisions with meteors, comets, and asteroids have played in the history of Earth and other planets in the solar system and examines what is being done to protect Earth from future collisions.

Go big or go home

2009
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.

Comets and meteors

1993
Describes the nature and movements of comets and meteors and examines what happens to meteors after they hit the Earth.

Shooting stars

1989
Explains what shooting stars are, what they are made of, and what happens to them when they land on Earth.

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