Crowley County Combined Library

Join scientists as they use telescopes to discover a new asteroid. Is it a danger to life on Earth?

Featuring full-color photographs, fact boxes, and graphic organizers, this book theorizes that a space object was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and explores whether such an event could threaten life on Earth again.

"What happened to the dinosaurs that once roamed Earth? Could they have been extinguished by an explosion or perhaps by a meteor? Through colorful images and accessible language, readers will explore the drastic events that forever changed life on Earth nearly seventy million years ago, learn more about the debris that's been falling to Earth for billions of years, and be introduced to the way Earth interacts with other objects in the solar system....