Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
- Extensive coverage of the event July 1994. Includes observations, reports, 1444 images, news releases and links.
- http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
Lists and Plots: Comets - Offers updated orbital data, lists and orbit diagrams. Includes near Earth objects and minor planets. - http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/CometLists.html
Comet Observations - Catalogue of images, ordered by comet. - http://www.theastronomer.org/comets.html
Glossary - Glossary of comet (and astronomical) terms. - http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/ICQGlossary.html
Wikipedia: Comet - Encyclopedia entry covers physical characteristics, history. List of well-known comets. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet
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. - http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/comets/
SOHO Sungrazers - Images of sun grazing comets from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Also, background, archives, and how to interpret images and report new discoveries. - http://ares.nrl.navy.mil/sungrazer/
Comet Section of Germany - News, observations, analyses of current comets, images, archives, links. - http://www.fg-kometen.de/fgk_hpe.htm
Catalogue of Comet Discoveries - Downloadable catalog. Also news, reading list, articles, links. - http://www.comethunter.de/
Nakano Note - Orbit computations for selected comets. - http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk.htm
Canadian Comet Catchers - A list of comets discovered by Canadian astronomers. - http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dave.chapman/CanCom.html
Comet comet comet - Overview of comets, as described by a professional comet researcher. - http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/comet.html
Windows to the Universe: Comets - General information and data, pictures, details on the most interesting ones. - http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/comets.html
Views of the Solar System: Comets - Basic features, data, discoveries, images and sections with specific information on selected comets. - http://www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm
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. - http://sciencenews.org/20000408/fob1.asp
Small Comets - The original discovery and latest news about a new class of interplanetary bodies. - http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/
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. - http://www.howstuffworks.com/comet.htm