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Mission to Pluto : the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt

2016

Format:	Book
Author:	Carson, Mary Kay, author.
Title:	Mission to Pluto : the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt / Mary Kay Carson ; with photographs by Tom Uhlman.
Publisher, Date:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
Description:	73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Summary:	"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."-- Provided by publisher.
Target Audience Note:	Ages 10-12. Grades 4 to 6.
Series:	Scientists in the field Scientists in the field.
Subjects:	New Horizons (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile literature. Space flight -- Juvenile literature. Interplanetary voyages -- Juvenile literature. Pluto (Dwarf planet) -- Juvenile literature. Kuiper Belt -- Juvenile literature. Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature.
Other Author:	Uhlman, Tom, illustrator.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (page 72) and index.
Contents:	A long-awaited encounter -- Mission brief: The journey to Pluto -- Plutonian dreams -- Mission brief: Pluto primer -- Built to go the distance -- Mission brief: The spacecraft -- Sprinting across the solar system -- Mission brief: Mini-moons -- Up close and personal -- Mission brief: Pluto encounter -- Meet the neighbors -- Mission brief: The Kuiper Belt.
LCCN:	2015037656
ISBN:	9780544416710 0544416716 9780544416710 0544416716
Other Number:	926050363
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	633291
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Call Number:	j 629.435 Carson

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