Comet links

Comet Links

>> SL-9 >> Hale-Bopp >> Hyakutake

Potential Comet Discoverer: Read instructions how to procede in case you may have discovered a comet ! (Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams)
Current Comets (Gary W. Kronk)
Ephemerides of currently observable comets (IAU Minor Planet Center)
Comet & Minor Planet Ephemeris Service (IAU Minor Planet Center)
Dead Link! Comet Observation Home Page (JPL)
Dead Links! Currently observable comets and recent observations (JPL)
Dead Link! Comet News (Bigelow/Catalina Sky Survey, LPL, U Arizona)
Nearby Comet List: Those that came closest to Earth (Gary Kronk) - IAU MPC list
Great Comets in History, by Donald K. Yeomans
Gary W. Kronk's Comet Resource
Comet Cross-Identification (NASA PDS Small Body Node (SBN))
Comet Catalog (NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) Small Body Node (SBN)) [local archival copy of June 2022]
Cometary Orbits (Kazuo Kinoshita) -- Numbered Comets, Unnumbered Periodic, and Nonperiodic Comets
Comet Catalog by Number (Seiichi Yoshida)
Observing Comets:
- Comet Chasing (Skyhound),
- Fachgruppe Kometen der VdS (in German),
- Seiichi Yoshida's Future Comets: Northern and Southern Hemisphere
T. Puckett's Comet Observations Page
Comet images by Sven Kohle and Till Credner
Comet images by Chris Schur (Kohoutek, West, IAA, Halley and other rarely photographed/displayed comets together with Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp) - CCD comets
Comet Space Missions
Comet Data [343k ascii] of all comets up to 1994, including some predictions up to 2000
My small comet stuff collection (under construction !)
Charles Messier's comets (remember: His devotion was comets); all 50 comets 1758-1806; Messier's 44 observed comets; Charles Messier's original "Notes on My Comets"
Meteor Showers Online (G.W. Kronk)
Comet 1993e (D/1993 F2) Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9):
- SL9-List: List of sites holding images of the SL9-Jupiter crash (also in plain ascii)
- Comet SL9 Impact Image Archive at SEDS
- SL9 collection at JPL (Over 1,400 images !)
- SL9 collection at the MAA (Munich, Germany)
- G.W. Kronk's SL9 page
Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp:
- Hale-Bopp images from Konstanz!
- JPL: Comet Homepage
- Dead Link! Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer
- Hale-Bopp pre-discovery photo and other Hale-Bopp info from CFA/Harvard Univ.
- Spaceviews' Hale-Bopp pages; Link list
- G.W. Kronk's Hale-Bopp page
- ESO's Hale-Bopp page
- GSFC Hale-Bopp page
Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake:
- Comet Hyakutake images from Konstanz!
- Hyakutake Homepage at JPL
- ESO Hyakutake page
- G.W. Kronk's Hyakutake page
Other important individual comets:
- Comet 1P/Halley
- Comet 2P/Encke
- Comet 3D/Biela

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