| Portion of title |
Meet NASA inventor Masahiro Ono and his team's asteroid-harpooning hitcher |
| Portion of title |
Asteroid-harpooning hitcher with NASA inventor Hiro Ono |
| Series |
Out of this world
Out of this world (World Book) UNAUTHORIZED
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| Contents |
The leftovers -- Why study the leftovers? -- Inventor feature : the traveler -- Visiting the asteroids -- Stopping in -- Hitching an asteroid -- Inventor feature : growing up -- Big idea : tethers -- Big idea : carbon nanotubes -- Inventor feature : crossing the ocean to reach the stars -- An expensive harpoon -- Playing out the line -- Braking -- Big idea : regenerative braking -- Far from the sun -- A local train in the outer solar system -- Taking off again -- Inventor feature : Icy Moon Cryovolcano Explorer -- Masahiro Ono and his team. |
| Abstract |
"A volume explaining engineer Masahiro Ono's plan to create a space probe that will be able to hitch itself to an asteroid as the asteroid is traveling through our galaxy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Audience |
990 Lexile |
| Study program note |
Accelerated Reader AR |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2017024501 |
| ISBN | 9780716661610 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0716661616 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
