1000 Facts About the Earth (1000 Facts About) by Moira Butterfield

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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.

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Text and illustrations present information about such space-related topics as gallaxies, stars, the planets, moon landings, and modern astronomy.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   10 of 13 people found the following review helpful: ô¿ô *-*-*-*1000 Facts About Space*-*-*-*ô¿ô, March 31, 2000 By A Customer 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!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Bad astronomy, February 8, 2003 By  Chuck (Chicago) - See all my reviews 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.