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Comet Links
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Comets & Meteor Showers
Gary Knonk's site lists currently visible comets, periodic and sungrazing comets. One of the best comet resources on the web
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BAA Comet Section
The latest comet news from the British Astronoical Association
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Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Publishes the IAU Circulars--a must for people wanting to observe comets. The Circulars announce new comet and asteroid discoveries, publish their orbits, and provide predictions of where to find these objects
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The ICQ Comet Information Website
This is a key place to begin looking for useful and accurate information regarding news, observations, orbital data, designations and names, and good links regarding comets and related topics
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Comet Chasing
Comet chasing is all about the visual observation of telescopic comets. This site provides information on where to look for them along with finder charts
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Canadian Comet Catchers
Comets discoverd by Canadian astronomers
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Observable Comets
This page lists links to orbital elements and ephemerides of (potentially) observable comets
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Comets
The Comet page from 'The Astronomer Online' showcases comet images taken from around the world
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
Large archive of data on the comet that collided with Jupiter in July 1994
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter
Another large site achiving the data gathered on the comet that collided with Jupiter in July 1994
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SOHO Comets
On this website you can view and submit reports of suspected comets visible in LASCO images. You will find information on past comets found by the LASCO instrument aboard the SOHO satellite and from other spaceborne and ground-based instruments. There is also a wealth of information here designed to help newcomers discover their first SOHO comet! In addition, pictures and educational resources that can be used both in the classroom and at home are shown throughout the site
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Stardust - NASA's Comet Sample Return Mission
News and information about NASA's Stardust Mission which collected samples of comet dust by passing through the tail of a comet and returned those samples to Earth
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Stardust@Home
Help search for interstellar dust in the Stardust aerogel collector. The Stardust@home collaboration -- consisting of thousands of volunteers all over the world, and professional scientists at U. C. Berkeley and NASA/JSC -- has identified a number of intriguing features in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector
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| Comet eBooks & Articles
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Stardust Comet Flyby NASA report in PDF format. Left-click to read in your browser or Right-click to download.
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The Comet With a Broken Heart Report in PDF format. Left-click to read in your browser or Right-click to download. The VLT Takes Images of Disintegrating Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3.
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Photometric Behavior of Comet Hale-Bopp
(C/1995 O1) Before Perihelion Report in PDF format. Left-click to read in your browser or Right-click to download. Narrowband photometric observations of comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) between 25
July 1995 and 15 February 1997 indicated gas and dust production rates of 20 and 100
times greater, respectively, than observed at the same heliocentric distances for comet
P/Halley in 1985.
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The Tau Herculid meteor shower and Comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3 Report in PDF format. Left-click to read in your browser or Right-click to download. The Tau Herculid meteor shower has not shown any appreciable activity since 1930. However, it
is associated with Comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3, a Jupiter-family comet that split in
1995. The fragments will pass near the Earth on 2006 May 13, and could produce an outburst of
the Tau Herculid shower.
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Comet Links News
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25 Jul 2008 at 1:14am
Today At ottawacitizen.com Ottawa Citizen, Canada - 2 hours ago But an unmanned probe sent to investigate a comet has now turned its camera back toward home to show Earth and the moon together. ... | Read more...
24 Jul 2008 at 1:51pm
Roller-coaster lovers relive thrill of riding former Fort Erie ... Niagara Falls Review, Canada - 14 hours ago At the top of his agenda: To once again ride The Comet roller-coaster. The 77-year-old Crystal Beach resident recently got that chance. ... | Read more...
24 Jul 2008 at 11:42am
Odd Fellows hold off Comet Blue in NET quarters Lititz Record Express, PA - 16 hours ago It was also nice, from the Lititz Odd Fellows' perspective, to avenge a 6-0 loss to Comet Blue back on June 16. "(Comet Blue) had said some things after the ... | Read more...
24 Jul 2008 at 6:00am
Pine Brook Partners with Comet Ridge Private Equity Hub, MA - 22 hours ago Pine Brook Road Partners announced a joint venture with oil and gas exploration company Comet Ridge Ltd. (ASX: COI), to develop the company's US assets. ... | Read more...
23 Jul 2008 at 3:06am
Q&A with Dylan Schiemann co-creator of Dojo on AJAX, Comet, Bayeux ... InfoQ.com, Canada - Jul 23, 2008 InfoQ had a Q&A with Dylan Schiemann, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit, about AJAX, Comet, Bayeux, RIAs and the newly released Dojo Toolbox ... | Read more...
23 Jul 2008 at 2:20am
The new Hatfield police station in Comet Way Times 24, UK - Jul 23, 2008 The new police station is in Comet Way, Hatfield, and is to be the new headquarters for the force's central area. It replaces the old Hatfield police ... | Read more...
22 Jul 2008 at 3:07pm
Russian Mystery Blast Caused by Comet, Acid Rain Hints National Geographic, DC - Jul 22, 2008 The Tunguska explosion occurred on June 30, 1908, when some 80 million trees covering 770 square miles (2000 square kilometers) were flattened by an immense ... | Read more...
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