Links to other Websites: Useful Comet Information (original) (raw)

Links to other recommended sites with useful and original comet information are provided below. Check out also the links toour own web pages regarding comets and comet observing.

NOTE that we only link to sites that will accomodate simple, non-frames-intensive LYNX and/or MOSAIC browsers! If you have a site that is frames-intensive (designed to be read by Microsoft and/or Netscape browsers), we recommend that you make sure that parts of all of your pages can be read by non-frames (text-only) browsers -- as a common courtesy to others.

• Original comet images:
  • original comet images from Crni Vrh Observatory (Slovenia)
  • original CCD comet images from Akimasa Nakamura (Kuma Kogen, Japan)
  • the ICQ's Associate Editor's personal website
  • Gary Kronk's comet website (includes recent images)
  • CCD comet images from Pic du Midi in France
  • original CCD comet images from Gordon Garradd (Loomberah, N.S.W., Australia)
  • original comet images from Puckett Observatory (Georgia, USA)
  • original fabulous comet images from M. Jaeger (Austria) and others
  • original comet images from G. Masi (Italy)
  • more original comet images from Italy
  • comet images from Alfons Diepvens in Belgium
  • images and movies of comets near the sun from the coronagraph onboard the SOHO spacecraft
  • CCD images from Brazil
  • ESO's Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) page
  • Halley's comet (some non-original images from what was originally a Los Alamos site)
• Nakano Notes, containing orbital calculations of comets by Syuichi Nakano (Sumoto, Japan), the ICQ Comet Handbook Editor
• Yamamoto Circulars, containing news of comets (in Japanese), edited also by Syuichi Nakano, the ICQ Comet Handbook Editor
• Info on space missions to comets (NASA)
• Maik Meyer's Catalogue of Comet Discoveries webpage
• Maik Meyer's e-mail discussion group via Yahoo (message website)
• Smithsonian Institution's webpage on comets
• VdS Fachgruppe Kometen -- the homepage of the German amateur comet observers (in German and English)
• Alfredo Pereira's observing Web pages (in English and Portuguese)
• Brazilian comet observers [with photos of various ICQ Observation Coordinators!]
• BAA Comet Section (U.K.)
• Sky and Telescope's comet page [WARNING: *EXCESSIVELY* heavy amounts of javascript, imaging, and cookies, can overwhelm some computers; their unnecessary poor webpage scripting forces us to NOT recommend this site, listed here only as a courtesy to S&T]

Meteors and meteor streams have close relationships to comets, as many (most?) of our annual meteor "showers" are produced by debris left behind by comets in their orbits. Some useful links to meteor information:

• International Meteor Organization
• IAU Commission 22
• Gary Kronk's meteor-shower information
• Reporting a bright fireball
• Leonid meteors info from NASA

Potential large impactors for the earth have been noted much in the news lately. Some useful links regarding information about comets and large meteoroids or minor planets impacting the earth:

• List of closest known approaches to the earth by comets
• Primary information on near-Earth objects
• Info on the 1908 Tunguska event in the earth's atmosphere
• computer simulations of comet impacts in the earth's atmosphere

Index to the CBAT/MPC/ICQ pages.

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