''Mr. Bass's Planetoid'' is a 1958 children's

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author Eleanor Cameron. The novel follows '' The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet'' (1954) and '' Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet'' (1956). The book is illustrated by Louis Darling.

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The boys hunt for Prewytt Brumblydge, inventor of the Brumblitron, which is threatening to explode, destroying the Earth. This time, instead of journeying to Basidium, they fly to an airless rock named Lepton that orbits 1,000 miles above the Earth's surface. This novel introduces the fictional metal ''Brumblium'', a greenish metal that shows as infragreen on a spectroscope and has twice the density of uranium.

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1958 Canadian novels 1958 science fiction novels Canadian science fiction novels Children's science fiction novels Space exploration novels Novels by Eleanor Cameron Works set on fictional moons Little, Brown and Company books 1958 children's books {{Canada-novel-stub

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