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Impact! : asteroids and the science of saving the world / Elizabeth Rusch ; photos by Karin Anderson.

by Rusch, Elizabeth.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2017.

Asteroids -- Collisions with Earth -- Juvenile literature.

Asteroids -- Juvenile literature.

Meteorites -- Juvenile literature.

Extinction (Biology) -- Juvenile literature.

Scientists in the field.

9780544671591 (hardcover)

0544671597 (hardcover)

Alternate title:

Asteroids and the science of saving the world.

76 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-71) and index.

An asteroid strikes -- Clues on the ground -- Blast from the past -- The death of the dinos -- Asteroid hunt! -- The search from space -- How to stop an asteroid from smashing into Earth -- What you can do! -- Learn more about asteroids and meteorites.

Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future.

Anderson, Karin.

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