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	Exploring The Planets: Comets URL: http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/comets/ ODP description: History, orbits, composition, ways comets are studied, relation to meteor showers. Comets Halley, Shoemaker-Levy 9. From the National Air and Space Museum. Page title: Exploring The Planets - Comets
	Canadian Comet Catchers URL: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dave.chapman/CanCom.html ODP description: A list of comets discovered by Canadian astronomers.
	Glossary URL: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/ICQGlossary.html ODP description: Glossary of comet (and astronomical) terms. Page title: Glossary of astronomical terms
	Comet Section of Germany URL: http://www.fg-kometen.de/fgk_hpe.htm ODP description: News, observations, analyses of current comets, images, archives, links. Page title: Homepage of the VdS-Fachgruppe Kometen
	British Astronomical Association Comet Section URL: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ ODP description: News, recent observations, observing information and advice. Page title: BAA Comet section
	The ICQ Comet Information Website URL: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/icq/icq.html ODP description: Updated news letter on observation opportunities, designation of names and discoveries. Includes observation data and links. Page title: Comet Information and the International Comet Quarterly (ICQ)
	Small Comets URL: http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/ ODP description: The original discovery and latest news about a new class of interplanetary bodies. Page description: Small Comets - A New Class of Interplanetary Bodies Confirmed
	Wikipedia: Comet URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet ODP description: Encyclopedia entry covers physical characteristics, history. List of well-known comets. Page title: Comet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Nakano Note URL: http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk.htm ODP description: Orbit computations for selected comets.
	Comet Observations URL: http://www.theastronomer.org/comets.html ODP description: Catalogue of images, ordered by comet. Page title: Comets
	Windows to the Universe: Comets URL: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/comets.html ODP description: General information and data, pictures, details on the most interesting ones. Page title: Comets
	SOHO Sungrazers URL: http://ares.nrl.navy.mil/sungrazer/ ODP description: Images of sun grazing comets from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Also, background, archives, and how to interpret images and report new discoveries. Page title: SOHO Comets Page description: Data and images of SOHO's Comet discoveries
	Comet's Long Tail Tickles Ulysses URL: http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350/title/A_Comets_Long_Tail_Tickles_Ulysses ODP description: The solar polar orbit satellite observed tail of comet Hyakutake by means of magnetic fields and particle count anomalies. Article from Science News. Page title: Science News / A Comet's Long Tail Tickles Ulysses Page description: Science News: the weekly magazine of The Society for Science and the Public
	Comet comet comet URL: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/comet.html ODP description: Overview of comets, as described by a professional comet researcher. Page title: comet comet comet comet comet comet comet comet comet
	Views of the Solar System: Comets URL: http://www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm ODP description: Basic features, data, discoveries, images and sections with specific information on selected comets. Page title: Comet Introduction Page description: Comets are small, fragile, irregularly shaped bodies composed of a mixture of non-volatile grains and frozen gases. They have highly elliptical orbits that bring them very close to the Sun and swing them deeply into space.
	Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter URL: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/ ODP description: Extensive coverage of the event July 1994. Includes observations, reports, 1444 images, news releases and links. Page title: Comet Shoemaker-Levy Homepage (JPL)
	Catalogue of Comet Discoveries URL: http://www.comethunter.de/ ODP description: Downloadable catalog. Also news, reading list, articles, links. Page title: The COCD Homepage
	Lists and Plots: Comets URL: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/CometLists.html ODP description: Offers updated orbital data, lists and orbit diagrams. Includes near Earth objects and minor planets.
	Comet Information and the International Comet Quarterly URL: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/icq.html ODP description: From the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. News, observations, orbital data, comet names and designations, links. Page title: Comet Information and the International Comet Quarterly (ICQ)
	How Stuff Works: Comet URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/comet.htm ODP description: Informative illustrated explanation of what comets are, what they are made of, where they come from and how to observe them. Page title: Howstuffworks "How Comets Work"