Title:
Mission to Pluto : the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt / Mary Kay Carson ; with photographs by Tom Uhlman.
ISBN:
9780544416710
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Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
Summary:
"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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 6.3 2 185288
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Interest age level:
Ages 10-12.
Interest grade level:
Grades 4 to 6.
Audience:
940L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
ocn926050363
Availability:
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