See also: Exploring The Planets Links: Asteroids, Comets & Meteors.

• Asteroids and Comets - NASA links to asteroid and comets fact sheets, FAQ, imagery, and spacecraft missions.
• Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page
• Comet Observation Home Page - current comet information and imagery from NASA/JPL.
• Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake Home Page (NASA/JPL)
• JPL Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter Home Page (NASA/JPL)
• The Minor Planet Center (IAU) - records, data and new discoveries for all asteroids and comets.
• International Halley Watch CD - Volumes 25 and 26
• International Astronomical Union (IAU): The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) - at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
• The International Comet Quarterly - published by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

MISSIONS:

• STARDUST - mission to collect cometary dust from Comet Wild-2 in 2003.
• The Giotto Mission - information from:

  NASA/NSSDC

  NASA/JPL

  European Space Agency

• The Vega Mission - information on Vega 1 and Vega 2 from:

  NASA Planetary Missions (NSSDC).

  Vega 1 , Vega 2 (NASA/JPL).

• ICE (ISEE-C, Int'l Cometary Explorer) Mission to Comet Giacobini-Zinner:
  

  NASA Planetary Missions (NSSDC)

  NASA/JPL

• The International Ultraviolet Explorer:

  IUE Observatory, Villafranca - ESA

  NASA/GSFC

• Sakigake and Suisei Satellites:

  ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science), Japan - (English version)

• Solar Maximum Home Page (NASA/GSFC)
• Pioneer Venus Project Information (NASA/NSSDC)
• NASA CURRENT AND PAST PLANETARY MISSIONS (NASA/NSSDC)

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• The Comet Connection - Making a Comet in the Classroom.
• The Comet's Tale

• See Also: Exploring The Planets Links

Historical Records || Origin & Orbits || Anatomy of a Comet || Comet Observations
Comet Names || Halley's Comet || Spacecraft Encounters
Meteor Showers || Shoemaker-Levy   9 || Comet Links

Exploring Comets

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