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32 pages
colour illustrations.
Contents include: A date with disaster -- A threat from outer space? -- Travelers of the solar system -- Who are the asteroids hunters? -- Searching the skies -- Asteroid hunters with supercomputers -- Hunting for Apophis -- A space neighbor drops in -- Spaceguard in action -- Earth under attack! -- Defending Earth -- A mission to an asteroid -- Asteroid hunters on guard -- Get to work as an asteroid hunter.
Summary: A powerful telescope has discovered a giant object speeding through our solar system. Is it an asteroid? Will its orbit bring it close to Earth? Is there a chance it could one day collide with our planet? It's time for a team of asteroid hunters to go into action and track the object as it hurtles through space! In this book readers will meet the scientists who use high-powered telescopes and super computers to watch for dangers from space.
Get to work with science and technology.