Adventures in the Solar System: Planetron and Me

By Geoffrey T Williams

Join Planetron, a transformer robot, and his young friend Will on a thrilling tour of the solar system. It's a fast-paced planet-by-planet journey, filled with facts about the planets, moons, the sun, comets, asteroids, and stars. Fly through Venus' deadly sulfur clouds, drive across the sands of Mars, ride on a comet. And those are just a few of the adventures in the solar system awaiting you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Geoffrey T Williams
• Release date: Jul 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9780977138142

Geoffrey T Williams

My love of science started when my geologist father told me a rock I had found in the back yard of our Wyoming house was a dinosaur bone. Fast-forward some years, and I wrote a short book called "Dinosaur World" and produced the cassette tape that went along with it. Thanks to a small publishing company named Price Stern Sloan, the book and tape went "viral," selling tens of thousands of copies in just a few months. That success led to the other Dinosaur World volumes, which eventually sold more than eight million copies. From that I branched out to write about other sciences I loved, including astronomy and space travel, entomology, oceanography, etc. And since I love producing audio, almost all the books included cassette tapes, and later, CDs.

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Adventures in the Solar System – Planetron and Me

Geoffrey T. Williams

Copyright by Geoffrey T. Williams 1986

Published by Geoffrey T. Williams

Table of Contents

A Note From Planetron

Chapter 1 – Countdown

Chapter 2 – Inside Planetron

Chapter 3 – The Sun

Chapter 4 – Mercury

Chapter 5 – Venus

Chapter 6 – Mars

Chapter 7 – The Asteroid Belt

Chapter 8 - Jupiter

Chapter 9 – The Moons of Jupiter

Chapter 10 – Saturn

Chapter 11 – Uranus

Chapter 12 – Neptune

Chapter 13 – Pluto

Chapter 14 – Wild Ride on a Comet

Chapter 15 – Earth

Planetron Blue Print

About the Author

A Note from Planetron

More than two decades have passed since Will and I took our wild ride around the solar system. And, since the science of astronomy is constantly advancing, you might know that things have changed in our tiny neighborhood.

We lost a planet (poor Pluto has never really forgiven the International Astronomical Union), but we gained some moons – 166 at last count. Extra-solar planets are being discovered at an astonishing rate by our orbiting telescopes. And who knows what tomorrow will bring. It’s a very exciting time to explore the night sky.

Will is older now of course. He has young children of his own. And, every once in a while, he lets them take me out of my box to play. So far, they haven’t discovered the secret button that allows me to transform. One of these days they’ll find it on their own. At least I hope so. There’s still so much to learn.

Countdown

My big adventure started the

Reviews for Adventures in the Solar System

[alexandra1600 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Children and teachers will love to read this adventure in space or use book as a sounding board for a creative writing assignment.