Publisher's Synopsis
This book is for KIDS who love to read the SPACE SCIENCE. This book is one of the best choice for kids who like 'Astronomy' or 'Space Science'. This book illustrates about Asteroids. The beauty of the book is numbers of COLORFUL PICTURES are given to gain interest of kids in the Science. Many of us look at the sky in the night and observe the beautiful twinkling Stars. Have you ever observed a 'Falling star' in the sky at night? Many will say 'Yes'. We have probably seen this remarkable scene. You were actually seeing 'a meteor'. This book illustrates about 'a meteor shower'.It is very important to learn about asteroids. We all know that millions of years ago, asteroids hit the Earth and made all dinosaurs disappear. A collision 66 million years ago between The Earth and an object (which was approximately 10 Kilometers wide) is thought to have produced the extinction event for dinosaurs. Asteroids are 'minor planets' as they are much smaller in size than planets. They are usually found in the inner solar systems. It is small and rock like objects that orbit the Sun. Asteroids are made from different kinds of rocks and metals, with the metal being mostly the Nickel and Iron. Asteroids don't have an atmosphere.Our solar system began about 4.6 billion years ago. At this time, a big cloud of gas and dust collapsed and the most of the material fell to the center of the cloud. This resulted into formation of 'the Sun'. Some of the condensing dust in the cloud became planets. Some objects in the 'asteroid belt' could not form into planets. There are lots of asteroids in our solar system. Most of these asteroids live in the main 'asteroid belt'.About Author: Author is Post Graduate in Mechanical Engineering field. Author is a Mechanical Engineer and has done good research work in Thermal Engineering Field. Author has teaching experience in Engineering Colleges. Author has written books in English as well as Marathi Language. This is Author's sixth book.
