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English
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Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite -- the largest ever discovered -- from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking -- along with its unique cargo -- to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
450 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the #1 internationally bestselling author comes a sweeping epic that chronicles the history of the world through the destiny of a mysterious blue stone.
Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and shattered, revealing a beautiful blue stone. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain, and it formed her destiny-as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to Imperial...
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English
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The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite,...
5) Meteorites
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[1962]
Physical Desc
xii, 274 p. illus., map. 24 cm.
Language
English
6) Meteorites
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, col. port. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A noted meteoriticist shows how meteorites have helped build our planet and influenced humanity since the start of civilization.
"The Solar System. Dinosaurs. Donkey Kong. What is the missing link? Surprisingly enough, it's meteorites. They explain our past, constructed our present, and could define our future. Impact argues that Earth would be a lifeless, inhospitable piece of rock without being fortuitously assaulted with meteorites throughout...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meteorites have long been seen as portents of fate and messages from the gods, their fiery remains inspiring worship and giving rise to legends that have persisted for millennia. But beyond the lore, meteorites tell an even greater story: that of our solar system. In Meteorite, geologist Tim Gregory shows that beneath the charred crusts of these celestial stones lies a staggering diversity of rock types. Gregory explores the world of meteorites to...
11) Shooting stars
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains what shooting stars are, what they are made of, and what happens to them when they land on Earth.
12) Impact
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Wyman Ford and a team of scientists must figure out how to destroy an alien doomsday weapon aimed at Earth, and the only tools at their disposal are a handful of weaponless machines--the Mars Orbiter, a lander, and a few satellites.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Oh no, Astro!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Astro, an asteroid that wants nothing more than for his personal outer space to be respected, is hit by a passing satellite and sent on what turns out to be a great adventure from the asteroid belt to Earth. Includes "space facts."
15) Meteors
Author
Series
National Geographic kids volume level 3
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes what are meteorites, and where do they come from?
17) Meteors
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Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind--and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he soon realizes that surviving in this new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids--plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous...
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