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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
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"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Space missions take years to plan. But they also take years to execute, so special robots are used to study deep space instead of astronauts. Pluto is so far away, the New Horizons probe took 10 years to get there! The main content describes the amazing technology used to build the probe as well as what tools it uses to study Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Informative sidebars introduce the scientist who discovered Pluto and other fascinating STEM information....
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[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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This book introduces the Kuiper belt, a cold, dark area of space at the far edge of our solar system; describes Kuiper belt objects which are called KBOs; and explains that scientists use powerful telescopes on Earth and in space to study KBOs.
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