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• Science: Technology: Space: Missions: Unmanned: Asteroids and Comets (23)

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• German (9)
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• Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter - Extensive coverage of the event July 1994. Includes observations, reports, 1444 images, news releases and links.
• British Astronomical Association Comet Section - News, recent observations, observing information and advice.
• CARA Project - Comet data archive for amateur astronomers. Includes observation logs and discussions. In English and Italian.
• Canadian Comet Catchers - A list of comets discovered by Canadian astronomers.
• Catalogue of Comet Discoveries - Downloadable catalog. Also news, reading list, articles, links.
• Comet Information and the International Comet Quarterly - From the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. News, observations, orbital data, comet names and designations, links.
• Comet Observations - Catalogue of images, ordered by comet.
• Comet Section of Germany - News, observations, analyses of current comets, images, archives, links.
• Comets - Overview provided by David Jewitt, an astronomer at UCLA.
• Exploring The Planets: Comets - History, orbits, composition, ways comets are studied, relation to meteor showers. Comets Halley, Shoemaker-Levy 9. From the National Air and Space Museum.
• Glossary - Glossary of comet (and astronomical) terms.
• How Stuff Works: Comet - Informative illustrated explanation of what comets are, what they are made of, where they come from and how to observe them.
• Lists and Plots: Comets - Offers updated orbital data, lists and orbit diagrams. Includes near Earth objects and minor planets.
• Nakano Note - Orbit computations for selected comets.
• SOHO Sungrazers - Movies of comets from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Also, background, archives, and how to interpret images and report new discoveries.
• Small Comets - The original discovery and latest news about a new class of interplanetary bodies.
• The Age of Comets - Article by William Newcott republished from the National Geographic magazine.
• The ICQ Comet Information Website - Updated news letter on observation opportunities, designation of names and discoveries. Includes observation data and links.
• Views of the Solar System: Comets - Basic features, data, discoveries, images and sections with specific information on selected comets.
• Wikipedia: Comet - Encyclopedia entry covers physical characteristics, history. List of well-known comets.
• Windows to the Universe: Comets - General information and data, pictures, details on the most interesting ones.
• Comet's Long Tail Tickles Ulysses - The solar polar orbit satellite observed tail of comet Hyakutake by means of magnetic fields and particle count anomalies. Article from Science News. (April 08, 2000)

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