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Space Island Adventure - Penguin kids
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Space Island Adventure - Penguin kidsSpace Island Adventure - Penguin kids

Peter, Pepper and Captain Cloud are on a spaceship. They stop at Space Island. They meet some friendly green aliens and see an alien school, an Astronaut Cafe and a blue elephant! But the aliens need their help. A big meteor is coming to Space Island! Can they find the big laser, stop the meteor and rescue Space Island?
 
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Tags: Island, Space, meteor, aliens, their, Penguin
Meteors and Comets
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Meteors and CometsMeteors and Comets

Have you ever seen a shooting star? What you genuinely saw was a meteor! A meteor is in fact a chunk of metallic or stony matter – called a meteoroid – that enters the earth’s atmosphere from outer space. A comet, on the other hand, is a lump of ice and dust that periodically comes into the center of the solar system from somewhere in its outer reaches. Discover much more about meteors and comets in this lively and informative book!
 
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Tags: meteor, outer, somewhere, reaches, solar, Meteors, Comets, system
Meteor and Other Stories (Stage 6)
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Meteor and Other Stories (Stage 6)Meteor and Other Stories (Stage 6)

Stage 6 - 2500 headwords.

It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionally fall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . .
In this collection of four of his famous science-fiction stories, John Wyndham creates visions of the future that make us think carefully about the way we live now.

 
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Tags: space, Stage, science-fiction, collection, famous, Meteor, Stories, Other
From Quarks to Black Holes: Interviewing the Universe
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From Quarks to Black Holes: Interviewing the UniverseThis title presents a series of interviews in which natural objects such as an electron, a black hole, a galaxy, and even the vacuum itself, reveal their innermost secrets - not only what they are but also how they feel. A hydrogen atom tells us about quantum mechanics and why we live in a non-deterministic world; a black hole explains curved space and naked singularities; and a uranium atom talks of its life on a meteor, its tremendous collision with Earth, and properties of radioactivity - all while grappling with its own mortality...
 
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Tags: black, meteor, tremendous, collision, talks
Tintin and the Shooting Star
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Tintin and the Shooting StarTintin and the Shooting Star

The Shooting Star tells the story of Tintin's voyage to the Arctic Ocean to recover a meteor that is composed of Phostlite, an unknown metal.


 
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Tags: Shooting, composed, Phostlite, unknown, Tintin, meteor