A noted meteoriticist shows how meteorites have helped build our planet and influenced humanity since the start of civilization. "The Solar System. Dinosaurs. Donkey Kong. What is the missing link? Surprisingly enough, it's meteorites. They explain our past, constructed our present, and could define our future. Impact argues that Earth would be a lifeless, inhospitable piece of rock without being fortuitously assaulted with meteorites throughout...

On this field trip, Ms. Frizzle's class takes the magic school bus and learns about meteors, comets and other space rocks.

Ten-year-old aspiring geologist Henry Bower investigates the meteorite that crash lands in the hayfield, discovering a rock that will change his family, his town, and even himself.

When a meteorite crashes into a fifth-grade classroom at Lincoln School in Oak Park, Illinois, the genie inside agrees to grant the class a Christmas wish--if they can agree on one within an hour.

"This nonfiction book for elementary-school-age children details the steps that brought a meteor from outer space, across the eastern US, to the roof of a car in Peekskill, New York, and thereafter to be verified, tested, and exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History. Hartland breaks down complex actions and processes in kid-friendly terms and includes pages of fascinating meteor details"--Provided by publisher.

During a summer road trip with his grandparents, ten-year-old Ben gains special transformative powers from a wristwatch he discovers in a meteorite and finds himself trying to save the world from the evil alien Vilgax and his forces.

Describes what are meteorites, and where do they come from?