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Cometography.com: C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake). Content includes discovery, observational, and orbit information, as well as several images.
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Cometography.com: 29 P/schwassmann Wachmann 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1. Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
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Cometography.com: C/1956 R1 (Arend Roland)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet C/1956 R1 (Arend-Roland). Content includes discovery information, orbit, images, and historical highlights.
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Cometography.com: 109 P/swift Tuttle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
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Cometography.com: C/1969 Y1 (Bennett)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet C/1969 Y1 (Bennett). Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
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Cometography.com: C/1975 V1 (West)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet C/1975 V1 (West). Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
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NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Giotto Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Space Science Data Center provides information on the Giotto mission which was designed to study Comet P/Halley. The spacecraft encountered Halley on March 13, 1986 and approached to within 600 km. This page...
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Cometography.com: C/2001 A2 (Linear)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a wealth of information regarding the C/2002 A2 (Linear) comet, including historical and discovery information.
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Cometography.com: C/1998 J1 (Soho)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet C/1998 J1 (SOHO). Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
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Cometography.com: C/2000 Wmi (Linear)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet C/2000 WMI (Linear). Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
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Professional Doc
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Knowledge Computing: Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilizations

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses a different approach to the fall of the civilizations during the Bronze Age. The author believes that there was a comet that affected the earth and wiped out those early cultures.
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NASA

Nasa: Hubble Observations Shed Light on Jupiter Impact

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists continue to learn from their observations long after the largest collision in history was recorded. Was Comet SL-9 actually an asteroid? What were the dark impact clouds made of? What were the effects on Jupiter's magnetic field?
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Cosmos 4 kids

Cosmos4 Kids: Solar System Details: Oort Cloud

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore the huge spherical region surrounding our solar system. Find out what the Oort Cloud contains and how comets originate there.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Jupiter

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia, a publicly-maintained encyclopedia, provides information on the planet Jupiter, including physical characteristics, exploration, moons, comet impact, and more.
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Cometography.com: 24 P/schaumasse

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet 24P/Schaumasse. Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Edmund Halley

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a short biography about Edmund Halley, and find out why the comet bears his name.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Gene Shoemaker

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the first astrogeologist and discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Bill Haley

For Students 9th - 10th
Read up on 1950s rock and roller, Bill Haley, who with His Comets recorded the legendary song, 'Rock Around the Clock'. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1987.
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BBC

Bbc News: Animated Guide: The Rosetta Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief animated guide to the Rosetta mission allows you to see how it is going to get to the comet, and then what it will do once it arrives there.
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Other

Seds Usa: Charles Messier

For Students 9th - 10th
Charles Messier (1730-1817 CE) is credited for discovering 13 comets. He also began the Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters. This catalog as well as a great deal of information on Messier is available here. The Messier objects are also...
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Stephen F. Austin State University: Jupiter Events

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent site for amateur astronomers, with or without a telescope. Includes some links to information about Jupiter and its satellites and the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
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Other

Ulysses Space Probe Makes Surprise Trip Into Comet's Tail

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting article about a surprising finding on Ulysses' second orbit.
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Bill Haley and His Comets

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn much information about Bill Haley, who had the first rock and roll record to make the pop charts.
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Cosmos 4 kids

Cosmos4 kids.com: Solar System Details

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive site delves into other aspects of our solar system besides the planets and the sun. Click on the topics on the right like solar winds, the heliosphere, the heliopause, asteroids, comets, and more.

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