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American Meteor Society: Comets & Meteor Showers
This site from the American Meteor Society contains links to a calendar of meteor shower events and links to information on meteor showers. Also, contains information on comets.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Meteor Showers
This video segment adapted from NASA uses animation to illustrate the properties of meteor showers and comets. Included is are visualizations of a comet's tail and of Earth passing through a debris stream left behind by meteoroids.
California Institute of Technology
Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer: Comets
Resource provides easy to understand information about comets. Click on the frequently asked question link to find out more about these mysterious celestial bodies.
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University of Leicester: Comets, Asteroids & Meteorites
Provides a general overview of comets, asteroids, and meteorites. Content includes ways to identify them in the night sky, as well as detailed information on each type of small body.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Earth Impact
This activity poses the question: What would happen if a meteor or comet impacted Earth? Students simulate an impact in a container of sand using various-sized rocks, all while measuring, recording and graphing results and conclusions....
Space.com
Space.com: Comets Data Sheet
This resource explains what comets are, where they come from, and how comets can cause meteor showers.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Comets
Amazing Science provides teachers with facts about comets that they can use as a reference or to stimulate class discussion. The science questions support the lesson's activities.
Space.com
Space.com: Lyrids: Leftovers of Comet Thatcher
Learn about one of the prominent meteor shower in April with information in this article. Understand the history of the shower as well as information about Comet Thatcher whose dust causes the shower to occur. Site also features a video...
NASA
Nasa Space Place: Asteroid or Meteor: What's the Difference?
Learn the difference between asteroids and comets, meteoroids and meteorites, and more!
NASA
Nasa Science: Hunting for Halley's Comet
Imagine riding a balloon to the top of Earth's atmosphere to catch a piece of Comet Halley. During the Eta Aquarids meteor shower, Earth passes through a dust trail left by the most famous comet. This article details how a group of...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Astronomy for Kids: Comets and Meteors
Kids learn about comets and meteors in the science of astronomy including the coma and tail, meteorites, meteoroids, the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud.
NASA
Nasa: Our Solar System Lithograph Set
View a lithograph set that includes pictures and brief descriptions of planets, sun, asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites. While viewing the lithograph learn important dates and interesting facts about our solar system.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
A brief vocabulary overview describing the difference between asteroids, comets, and meteors.
Other
Cometography.com: 1 P/halley
This site provides a detailed description of the Comet Halley. Content includes historical highlights and images.
NASA
Nasa: Solar System Exploration
Enter our solar system to interact with the planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, and more. Investigate with NASA scientists and explore missions related to space exploration. Read facts, compare statistics, look through resources, and...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica/ What Are the Different Parts of the Universe?
In this lesson, students learn about objects in the universe, including constellations, planets, meteors, asteroids, and comets.
Nine Planets
The Nine Planets: Small Bodies
This site explores the smaller bodies in the solar system, namely the various asteroids and comets. Links are also provided for additional information on related subjects.
Nine Planets
The Nine Planets: An Overview of the Solar System
A detailed overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in the solar system.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Star Child
StarChild from NASA defines and describes the Solar System in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. The website is broken down into two versions for the student, grade school and junior high.
Other
Space weather.com
Want to know what the current weather conditions are in space? Find everything here you may want to know about the latest solar flares, sunspots, asteroids and more. Site also includes essential web links to quench any user's thirst for...
NASA
Nasa: Our Solar System Overview
This site has links to all the planets, providing an overview of the solar system. It also contains information about asteroids, meteors, comets and other features of our solar system.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Our Solar System Lithograph Set
View these amazing high-quality images of our solar system from NASA with this lithograph set. Each lithograph contains images, facts, dates, and general information on a particular subject. Background information and teaching tips are...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Fruitful & Inventive Mind of Scientist Luis Alvarez
This article, reprinted from the fall 1979 LBL News Magazine, was written about Dr. Luis Alvarez and his part in the study of geological sediments and the great extinctions.
Extreme Science
Extreme Science: Space Science: Our Solar System
Read about our solar system and its formation over 4.6 billion years ago. Find out about the planets, asteroids, meteors, satellites, and comets. More in-depth planet background can be accessed through links.
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