1000 Facts About Space [Paperback]

Pam Beasant (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Series: 1000 Facts About

Every page of these stimulating first fact books is crammed with fascinating facts that are vividly presented and accompanied by dozens of colorful illustrations. With additional fact lists and an index, children are sure to find these books both appealing and accessible.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 47 pages
• Publisher: Kingfisher (October 7, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1856978117
• ISBN-13: 978-1856978118
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 9.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,251,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ô¿ô *-*-*-*1000 Facts About Space*-*-*-*ô¿ô, March 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 1000 Facts About Space (Paperback)

This book had to be the best book I've ever read. The book wasnot a boaring chapter book, it was filled with colorful pictures andmy Favorite, Strange but True Facts. I used to read this book every day. I definaly recomend this book to anyone who has any intrest in Outer Space at all. I read it once and now I'm hooked. I LOVE IT!

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book in the world!, May 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 1000 Facts About Space (Paperback)

This is the best book I have ever read! If there was such a thing as "The Best Book In The World Award", this book would surely win it!

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad astronomy, February 8, 2003

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Chuck (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1000 Facts About Space (Paperback)

This book is full of bad and inaccurate facts that will get someone off on the wrong foot. Black holes are gravitational wells and therefore don't suck, gravity pulls. How can something be sucked in a void? Space is not mostly empty space as it can be warped by gravity. Space is the fabric of space/time (E=MC2). Space does not go on forever. How can it if it's expanding and accelerating (inflationary cosmology). It can't expand into its self. Beyond space is nothing. No light, dark, tempurature, atoms, or even space. The Big Bang didn't explode, it happened everywhere at once since there was no universe before that from a sizeless singularity and created the space it expanded into. Space and time did not exist before the Big Bang as time can't exist without matter so there wasn't any before the Big Bang and it couldn't have "blasted matter" in all directions as there was as of yet no direction. Heat was so intense that only energy existed and so dense that light could not escape making the tiny universe opaque to light photons. There are three, not two theories on the future of the universe. An open, closed, or flat universe. The flat universe as predicted by Einstein's cosmological constant, or special relativity which wasn't mentioned in the book has been proven to be correct so the other two are null and void. And all spiral galaxies have a central black hole. I'm a cosmologist/astrophysicist.