Comets

• Comet data [343k ascii text] - data and elements of comets up to 1994 and then-future apparitions of periodic comets up to 2000
• Comet Space Missions
• Famous individual comets:
  • Comet 1P/Halley
  • Comet 1993e (D/1993 F2) Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9)
  • Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp
  • Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake
• Other notable comets:
  • Comet 2P/Encke
  • Comet 3D/Biela
  • Comet 1973f (C/1973 E1, 1973 XII) Kohoutek
  • Comet 1983d (1883 VII, C/1983 H1) Iras-Araki-Alcock (IAA): IRAS image and caption
  • Comet 1965f Ikeya-Seki (C/1965 S1): Comet Ikeya-Seki, captured on film by Dr Roger Lynds in 1966. (Roger Lynds/AURA/NOAO/NSF) - C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) by Gary Kronk
  • Comet C/2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang: Gary Kronk's page, Armagh Observatory IZ page.
• The Kreutz Group of sun-grazing comets
• Special stuff:
  • Comet C/2001 A2 LINEAR
  • Comet C/2000 WM1 LINEAR

This icon leads back to this page. It is showing comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1, the Great Comet of 1997).