asteroids

After a meteor destroys the earth, a group of people escape and establish a safe harbor on the moon.

The U.S. government calls upon an oil-well driller and his crew to save the world by flying to an asteroid on a collision course for earth and setting off a nuclear bomb to divert it.

Explains what asteroids and comets are made of and what happens when asteroids fall to Earth.

The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class learn lessons about space rocks when they board the Magic School Bus--now a space-bus--to try to head off a huge asteroid that is heading directly for Walker Elementary School.

Explores what comets and asteroids are, how scientists have studied them throughout history, and the effects of space debris on the Earth when it enters our atmosphere.

Describes, in graphic novel format, what would happen if a large asteroid were to hit Earth.

Disme Latimer, born nearly a thousand years after an asteroid destroyed much of civilization, is forced to hide her growing magical powers from her stepsister, an official in the oppressive Regime that runs the planet, while seeking to learn the truth about an ancient text written by her ancestor which suggests that truth and science still survive.