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Meet NASA inventor Masahiro Ono and his team's asteroid-harpooning hitcher / writer, Jeff De La Rosa.

Asteroid-harpooning hitcher (portion title)
De la Rosa, Jeff, (author.).

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780716661610
  • ISBN: 0716661616
  • Physical Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
  • Publisher: Chicago Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 5-11.
990L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.6 1 192888.
Subject:
Ono, Masahiro, 1982- > Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography > Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography.
Space flight to asteroids > Juvenile literature.
Asteroids > Juvenile literature.
Aerospace engineering > Juvenile literature.
Outer space > Exploration > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 8 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Richlands Branch Library J629.435 DEL (Text) 36015000059408 Juvenile Nonfiction Checked out 08/14/2026