The Canny Link Directory

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.