Directory of Comets Resources

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Comets are like asteroids, but when they are near the sun they release dust or gas. This gives them a tail or makes them look fuzzy.

Subcategories

• Amateur Observing
• Comet Hale-Bopp
• Comet Hyakutake
• Comet Lee
• Images

Resources in This Category

• British Astronomical Association Comet Section

  http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/
  News, recent observations, observing information and advice.

• CARA Project

  http://cara.uai.it/
  Comet data archive for amateur astronomers. Includes observation logs and discussions. In English and Italian.

• Catalogue of Comet Discoveries

  http://www.comethunter.de/
  Downloadable catalog. Also news, reading list, articles, links.

• Comet Information and the International Comet Quarterly

  http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/icq.html
  From the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. News, observations, orbital data, comet names and designations, links.

• Comet Observations

  http://www.theastronomer.org/comets.html
  Catalogue of images, ordered by comet.

• Comet Section of Germany

  http://kometen.fg-vds.de/
  News, observations, analyses of current comets, images, archives, links.

• Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter

  http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
  Extensive coverage of the event July 1994. Includes observations, reports, 1444 images, news releases and links.

• Comet's Long Tail Tickles Ulysses

  http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350/description/A_Comets_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.

• Comets

  http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/comet.html
  Overview provided by David Jewitt, an astronomer at UCLA.

• Glossary

  http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/ICQGlossary.html
  Glossary of comet (and astronomical) terms.

• Lists and Plots: Comets

  http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/CometLists.html
  Offers updated orbital data, lists and orbit diagrams. Includes near Earth objects and minor planets.

• Nakano Note

  http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk.htm
  Orbit computations for selected comets.

• Small Comets

  http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/
  The original discovery and latest news about a new class of interplanetary bodies.

• The Age of Comets

  http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/comets-age.html
  Article by William Newcott republished from the National Geographic magazine.

• Views of the Solar System: Comets

  http://www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm
  Basic features, data, discoveries, images and sections with specific information on selected comets.

• Wikipedia: Comet

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet
  Encyclopedia entry covers physical characteristics, history. List of well-known comets.

• Windows to the Universe: Comets

  http://www.windows2universe.org/comets/comets.html
  General information and data, pictures, details on the most interesting ones.

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