Mission to Pluto : the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt
2016
Book
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780544416710
- 0544416716
Description: 73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Target Audience Note:
- Ages 10-12.
- Grades 4 to 6.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 72) and index.
Contents:
- 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.
LCCN: 2015037656
Control Number: 1995805
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]Series:
Subjects:
- Interplanetary voyages -- Juvenile literature.
- Kuiper Belt -- Juvenile literature.
- New Horizons (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile literature.
- Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature.
- Pluto (Dwarf planet) -- Juvenile literature.
- Space flight -- Juvenile literature.
Other Authors: Uhlman, Tom, illustrator.