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A comet rushes toward the earth, a deadly, glowing orb that soon fills the sky and promises doom. But mankind is too busy hating, stealing, scheming, and killing to care. As luminous green trails of cosmic dust and vapor stream across the heavens, blood flows beneath: nations wage all-out war, bitter strikes erupt, and jealous lovers plot revenge and murder. The earth slips past the comet by the narrowest of margins, but all succumb to the gases in...

"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about asteroid impacts. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--

Set three months before a deadly asteroid is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures of Hank Palace. The Concord Police Department is now operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, and Hank is out of a job-until he's hired by a business tycoon to help find the man's estranged son. It isn't long before Hank's missing-person case turns into a murder investigation.

"Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--

As a meteor races toward Earth, two teens search for the truth behind the murder of a friend, even as they face down their last days.

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

In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hit Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to peice itself back together... In the twenty-first century, boats still ran on steam, messages arrived by telegraph, and the British Empire, with it capital now in Delhi, controls much...

A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary.

"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....

Text and illustrations explore the theory that the collision of an asteroid with the Earth ended the Cretaceous Period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.