Mission to Pluto
The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: 73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
"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.
Series: Scientists in the field.
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.
Subjects:
New Horizons (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile literature.
Space flight -- Juvenile literature.
Interplanetary voyages -- Juvenile literature.
Pluto (Dwarf planet) -- Juvenile literature.
Kuiper Belt -- Juvenile literature.
Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature.
New Horizons (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile literature.
Space flight -- Juvenile literature.
Interplanetary voyages -- Juvenile literature.
Pluto (Dwarf planet) -- Juvenile literature.
Kuiper Belt -- Juvenile literature.
Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Ages 10-12.
ISBN:
9780544416710
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C SCIENCE Space Travel Car | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C SCIENCE Space Travel Car | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Children's NonFiction | In |
C SCIENCE Space Travel Car | Northeast Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C SCIENCE Space Travel Car | Northeast Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C SCIENCE Space Travel Car | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C SCIENCE Space Travel Car | Southeast | Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (page 72) and index.