Facts about Comets

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Comets

Unlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity.

http://www.nineplanets.org/comets.html

Comet Facts, Myths and Legends: Home

All about comets...

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/cometmyth/home.html

Amazing Space: Comets

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http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/comets/lesson/lab.html

Astronomy For Kids

Gives a few basic facts about comets. And a few pictures. ... Halley's Comet (above) and Hale-Bopp Comet (right) are two famous comets

http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/comet.html

Deep Impact: Ten Important Comet Facts

Comets are composed of ices, dust and rocky debris carried from the early formation of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/educ/CometFacts.html

Asteroid, Comet and Meteor Facts

Comets are believed to be in long eliptical orbits that take them from beyond the orbit of Uranus to around the sun. These objects are found in the Kuiper Belt between Uranus and Neptune and the...

http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/asteroid-facts.html

Comet Introduction

Comets are small, fragile, irregularly shaped bodies composed of a mixture of non-volatile grains and frozen gases. ... For this reason, comets are said to be short-lived, on a cosmological time

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm

Comets : Comets, meteors and asteroids : Astronomy fact files :

Comets have been associated by the superstitious with disasters and other notable historical events. ... Because comets can be seen so easily, records of the observation of comets can be traced back

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/astronomy-facts/comets-meteors-asteroids/comets

The Perseids : Comets, meteors and asteroids : Astronomy fact files :

As well as the Sun, nine planets, comets and large asteroids, our solar system contains small particles of material sometimes described as meteoroids.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/astronomy-facts/comets-meteors-asteroids/the-perseids

Asteroids

Missions to Asteroids ... Current and Past Missions ... Asteroid Fact Sheet

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html