Space Rocks The Story of Planetary Geologist Adriana Ocampo (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 1: Los Suenos (Dreams)
Chapter 1: Los Suenos (Dreams)
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Here on planet Earth, she helped find the Crater of Doom, a massive hole blasted out by a mountain-sized space rock 65 million years ago. This split-second collision led to a global disaster that killed off entire life forms, including the dinosaurs.
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Adriana truly believes that people will go to other planets, and even to the stars, and she hopes with all her heart that she will be one of them.
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Her space mission is about to begin! Catholic children Adriana gulps down a café con leche, coffee with milk, and bread first take full part with her favorite treat, a caramel jam called dulce de leche.
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Adriana relies on the means "to waver instrument to monitor activity outside the windowless space back and forth regularly.") capsule.
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She pictures the asteroid, a giant She surveys the lunar colony rock flying through space straight near the landing site. A big glass toward the capsule.
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The ship transforms back into an old white sheet hung over an iron bar. The brown fuel tank becomes a water tank.
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when Adriana (standing in front Adriana can't stand dolls, so she made a little spacesuit out of of Mami) was about aluminum foil, fashioned a tiny helmet out of a plastic bowl, and 8 years old.
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"No estamos solos en el universo," Papi often assures her. ACE as Las Tres Marias We're not alone in the universe.
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She hopes with all her heart that The science fiction stories of Jules she will be one of them. Verne have been Mami and Papi always say, "Hay que seguir los sueños." You have translated from to follow your dreams.
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find when they get there. Engineering involves any object not found Science comes from the Latin word for in nature, such as buildings, roads, bridges, "knowledge." So what do scientists want chemicals, and every kind of machine.
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bought her a Papi glances at it and tells chemistry set and a her it's very good. He little telescope with a carrying case.
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