Comets are like asteroids, but when they are near the sun they release dust or gas. This gives them a tail or makes them look fuzzy.
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- Small Comets The original discovery and latest news about a new class of interplanetary bodies.
- Views of the Solar System: Comets Basic features, data, discoveries, images and sections with specific information on selected comets.
- British Astronomical Association Comet Section News, recent observations, observing information and advice.
- Nakano Note Orbit computations for selected comets.
- Catalogue of Comet Discoveries Downloadable catalog. Also news, reading list, articles, links.
- Wikipedia: Comet Encyclopedia entry covers physical characteristics, history. List of well-known comets.
- Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter Extensive coverage of the event July 1994. Includes observations, reports, 1444 images, news releases and links.
- Comet Observations Catalogue of images, ordered by comet.
- Comets Overview provided by David Jewitt, an astronomer at UCLA.
- The Age of Comets Article by William Newcott republished from the National Geographic magazine.
- CARA Project Comet data archive for amateur astronomers. Includes observation logs and discussions. In English and Italian.
- Windows to the Universe: Comets General information and data, pictures, details on the most interesting ones.
- Glossary Glossary of comet (and astronomical) terms.
- Comet Information and the International Comet Quarterly From the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. News, observations, orbital data, comet names and designations, links.
- Comet Section of Germany News, observations, analyses of current comets, images, archives, links.
- Comet's Long Tail Tickles Ulysses The solar polar orbit satellite observed tail of comet Hyakutake by means of magnetic fields and particle count anomalies. Article from Science News.
- Lists and Plots: Comets Offers updated orbital data, lists and orbit diagrams. Includes near Earth objects and minor planets.