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- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Asteroid-harpooning hitcher
Publication Information
Chicago Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]
Physical Description
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Audience
Ages 5-11.
Series
Summary
"A volume explaining engineer Masahiro Ono's plan to create a space probe that will be able to hitch itself to an asteroid as the asteroid is traveling through our galaxy"--
Contents
- The leftovers
- Why study the leftovers?
- Inventor feature : the traveler
- Visiting the asteroids
- Stopping in
- Hitching an asteroid
- Inventor feature : growing up
- Big idea : tethers
- Big idea : carbon nanotubes
- Inventor feature : crossing the ocean to reach the stars
- An expensive harpoon
- Playing out the line
- Braking
- Big idea : regenerative braking
- Far from the sun
- A local train in the outer solar system
- Taking off again
- Inventor feature : Icy Moon Cryovolcano Explorer
- Masahiro Ono and his team.
Subjects
- Space flight to asteroids > Juvenile literature.
- Asteroids > Juvenile literature.
- Aerospace engineering > Juvenile literature.
- Outer space > Exploration > Juvenile literature.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Ono, Masahiro (Aerospace engineer) > Juvenile literature.