Title: The Comet's Curse Author: Dom Testa Publisher: TOR Date:2005
The science in the book is a comet that passes over earth.
Comets are able to pass over earth and the potentially dangerous ones are monitered by NASA.
The link to this site shows the various asteroids that are monitered by NASA. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/pha.html
These books describe what comets are, what they're made of, how they're formed and some famous comets that we know of.
Comets are particles left over from the formation of stars and planets billions of years ago,they are massive chunks of ice floating in space.The tail we see behind a comet is the ice melting and gases escaping.This video and website gives a more detailed explanation of what a comets are. http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/1-what-is-a-comet.html
Sometimes when we see comets in the sky we see their tails illumnate the sky in bright colours. In the book it
discribes the 'display' going on for weeks.
The science in The Comet's Curse
Title: The Comet's Curse
Author: Dom Testa
Publisher: TOR
Date:2005
The science in the book is a comet that passes over earth.
Comets are able to pass over earth and the potentially dangerous ones are monitered by NASA.
The link to this site shows the various asteroids that are monitered by NASA.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/pha.html
These books describe what comets are, what they're made of, how they're formed and some famous comets that we know of.
Comets, Asteroids and MeteorsBy Parker, Steve (Book - 2007)
J 523.5 PAR
CometsBy Bonar, Samantha (Book - 1998)
J 523.6 BON
The autor himself (Dom Testa) explains the science behind his books in his website.
http://www.domtesta.com/documents/SBGVol2.pdf
Comets are particles left over from the formation of stars and planets billions of years ago,they are massive chunks of ice floating in space.The tail we see behind a comet is the ice melting and gases escaping.This video and website gives a more detailed explanation of what a comets are.
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/1-what-is-a-comet.html
Sometimes when we see comets in the sky we see their tails illumnate the sky in bright colours. In the book it
discribes the 'display' going on for weeks.