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When the Earth is doomed by an imminent and unavoidable asteroid collision, New Hampshire homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman.
5) Nemesis
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As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Fire Lake, Idaho.
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This title will cover how asteroids and meteoroids came to be, what they are made of, where most of them are found, and what happens when they collide with planets, like Earth! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.--
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In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the orecarrier Syracuse. With his wife and two children, he plies the Asteriod Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker's attention, away from his family. Now, as his wife and children plunge into the...
10) Countdown city
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Set three months before a deadly asteroid is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures of Hank Palace. The Concord Police Department is now operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, and Hank is out of a job-until he's hired by a business tycoon to help find the man's estranged son. It isn't long before Hank's missing-person case turns into a murder investigation.
12) Asteroid impact
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"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about asteroid impacts. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
14) Asteroids
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"We may not be able to see asteroids without a telescope, but there are thousands of these space rocks circling the sun. In this fact-filled, simple text, readers learn about asteroid formation, size, shape, and orbits. They are also introduced to the methods that scientists use to track asteroids. Fast facts and a hands-on activity expand the reader's learning experience, while full-color images enrich the text with additional details and examples....
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Cosmic collisions have forever shaped the planets in our solar system, sculpting Earth and our Moon. They are still happening right in our neighborhood, as we saw in July 1994 when comet fragments bombarded the surface of Jupiter. What if a collision of that magnitude were to occur on Earth? Would the effect be anywhere near that of the collision that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago? Scientists have just begun to track distant asteroids...
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"Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically probability. It's how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of being born were 1 in 5.5 trillion, and that the odds of her having the best family ever were even lower. Yet somehow, Kemi lucked out. But everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky, casting a purple haze over her world. AMPLUS-68 has an 84.7% chance...
18) Asteroid hunters
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Join scientists as they use telescopes to discover a new asteroid. Is it a danger to life on Earth?
19) Oh no, Astro!
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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."