Space garbage
By: by Ruth Owen
Series: Objects in space
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781477758663; 9781477758632; 9781477758687
Subjects: Space debris; Juvenile literature
Description: Are people in danger of being hit by falling space garbage? Readers find the answer as they learn about what space garbage is and how it could affect other objects in space and people on Earth. Through comprehensive text, readers learn about the many kinds of space garbage, including pieces of rockets! They also find fact boxes designed to give them even more information about space garbage. This otherworldly problem is shown in vivid detail through amazing photographs. Readers will be excited to learn about space through a closer look at the garbage orbiting Earth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 32) and index.
Table of contents: title: A junkyard in space; title: Around and around; title: What's up there?; title: How big is space debris?; title: Anti-satellite weapons; title: Garbage collisions; title: Damage to spacecraft; title: Safe inside the pizza box; title: Shields for spacecraft; title: Down to earth; title: A runaway problem?; title: The big space cleanup.