Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 5-11

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Meet NASA inventor Masahiro Ono and his team's asteroid-harpooning hitcher

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

989726711

Responsibility statement

writer, Jeff De La Rosa

Series statement

Out of this world

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Asteroid-harpooning hitcher

Classification