Comet over Nantucket
Subtitle: Maria Mitchell and her island : the story of America's first woman astronomer
By: by Elizabeth Fraser Torjesen.
Publisher: Friends United Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Richmond, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 -- Juvenile fiction.; Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 -- Fiction.; Children's stories, American.; Astronomers -- Fiction.; Comets -- Fiction.; Nantucket (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Description: A fictionalized biography of America's first woman astronomer, who in 1847 discovered a telescopic comet which was later named for her.