What makes a planet a planet?

Title
What makes a planet a planet?

Personal Author EPSB
Dan Bortolotti

Summary
What is a planet? For many years, scientists thought they knew. Then someone discovered a new, shiny object at the edge of the solar system. Find out how this discovery led to a new definition of "planet, and a new picture of our solar system.

Year Published
2007

Series
Scholastic literacy place for the early years

Physical Description
24 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm.

Note
Balanced Literacy

Subject
Reading materials.
 
Planets.
 
Solar system.

Summary
What is a planet? For many years, scientists thought they knew. Then someone discovered a new, shiny object at the edge of the solar system. Find out how this discovery led to a new definition of "planet, and a new picture of our solar system.

ISBN
9780779166930

Publisher
Markham, ON : Scholastic Canada, 2007.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
McLeodGUIDED READING LEVEL RTeacher resource30200000148817Guided Reading