Meet Martin.
He's another immigrant from the Plaiedes System. He has found his niche teaching 6th grade and dabbling in computer systems and occasional cyber authoring.

The classic children's book, My Teacher Is an Alien, was based on his antics in the classroom.









On his homeworld cats are considered delicacies. I'm happy to say he's changed some of his habits since finding his way to our blue sphere. Here's a picture of his personal foot-warmer, Kelly.







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1998 Martin Briner - emial: mbriner@aol.com

References:

Major Science Concepts: Life on Earth. Attenborough, David. Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1979
Stars. A Golden Guide. Zim, Herbert. Golden Press. NY. 1985.
Essentials of Geology. Guest, John. D. Van Nostrand Co. NY. 1970

Disco Graphic: The Disco planet graphic is an adaptation of a jpeg obtained from terranova: http://www.fourmilab.ch/terranova/terranova.html
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Print Graphics: The Life of Plants. Invisible World Series. Chelsea House Publishers, NY. 1994
Forest Life. Look Closer Series. Taylor, Barbara. Dorling Kindersley, NY. 1993
The Way Life Works. Hoagland, Mahlon. Times Books. NY. 1995
Hurricanes. Lee, Sally. Franklin Watts. NY. 1993
The Weather Sky. McMillan, Bruce. Farrar Straus Giroux. NY. 1991
Weather. Eyewitness Books. Cosgrove, Brian. Alfred A. Knopf. NY. 1991
Earth Explained. Taylor, Barbara. Henry Holt. NY. 1997