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Astronomy : Comets Meteors and Asteroids
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Asteroid 1997 XF11 Images
Asteroid Doomsday Countdown Clock - how much time before asteroid 1997XF11 reaches Earth in 2028? The count-down clock will let you know. With articles and links.
Discovery Photos of 1997 XF11 - from Spacewatch.
Comet Hale-Bopp [eso.org]
Comet Hale-Bopp [halebopp.com] - "official" Comet site.
Comet Hale-Bopp at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
HB Magazine - frequent updates on the comet.
SpaceViews: Comet Hale-Bopp - articles, observing information, and a comprehensive list of links to other Hale-Bopp Web sites.
Speciale Hale-Bopp - sito italiano dedicato interamente alla cometa Hale-Bopp, prodotto dal Pieri Astronomy Observatory.
Comet Halley [Nine Planets]
Giotto - mission was designed to study Comet P/Halley, and it also studied Comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup during its extended mission.
LASCO Comet Hyakutake Page [navy.mil]
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Home Page - information, images, animations, and other resources regarding the 1994 collision of fragments of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in a V-band image obtained 19 June 1993 with the Lowell Observatory 1.1-meter telescope. Seen about 13 months before Jupiter impact.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (NSSDC)
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 [smplanet.com] - An on-line activity aimed at exploring Internet resources related to the SL9 impact.
Lesson Plan: The Impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 - helps students learn about both science and Internet research.
SL9 Impact Information and Images - The latest photos and videos of the collisions.
Web Directory: Other SL9 WWW Pages
1908 Siberia Explosion - reconstructing the 1908 Tunguska explosion from eyewitness accounts.
Asteroids: Deadly Impact
Barringer Meteor Crater - meteors and impacts. Games, science, and history.
Comets, Culture, & Currency - direct social and physical impact of comet debris during the holocene and long term impact of rationalizing such phenomena.
Meteorite Central - site offers meteorite information, educational articles, a mailing list, chat room, and meteorites for sale.
Small Comets - A series of spectacular images produced by cameras on NASA's Polar spacecraft have confirmed that Earth is being pelted by thousands of small comets each day.
Astronomy On-Line: The Leonids
Leonid.org Leonid Meteor Shower forum and link site The Leonid.org Leonid 98 Meteor Shower forum and link site. Will the Leonid meteor storm be a spectacular shooting star exhibition or a devastating sudden impact?
Blast from the Past - exploring the possibilities that an asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Deep Space 1 - new technologies demonstration mission scheduled to fly by a near-Earth asteroid and encounter Comets Wilson-Harrington and Borrelly.
Giotto - mission was designed to study Comet P/Halley, and it also studied Comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup during its extended mission.
International Meteor Organization (IMO) - information about meteor observing techniques, analyses and recent results from world-wide data, a list of meteor showers, glossary, meteor-related projects, addresses, and more.
Spanish Meteor Society
Discovery of the Perseid Meteors
FAQ - Perseid Meteor Shower - prepared by the International Meteor Organization.
Weak Impact: The 1998 Perseid Meteor Shower - includes the hazards of impact and how to view the Perseids.
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