Impact!
Subtitle: asteroids and the science of saving the world
By: Elizabeth Rusch ; photos by Karin Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, Karin, illustrator
Series: Scientists in the field series; Scientists in the field
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780544671591
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Asteroids; Collisions with Earth; Extinction (Biology); Meteorites
Description: "Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-71) and index.

Ages 10-12.

Grades 4 to 6.
Table of contents: title: An asteroid strikes; title: Clues on the ground; title: Blast from the past; title: The death of the dinos; title: Asteroid hunt!; title: The search from space; title: How to stop an asteroid from smashing into Earth; title: What you can do!; title: Learn more about asteroids and meteorites.