Comets

General Information

• Comet Fact Sheet
• Frequently Asked Questions - Comets
• Reference Books on Comets
• Images and Information on the Comet SL-9 collision with Jupiter
• Information on Comet Hale-Bopp
• Information on Comet Hyakutake

Missions to Comets

Current and Past Missions

• New Horizons - NASA Pluto and Kuiper Belt mission
• Deep Impact/EPOXI - NASA Flyby of Comets P/Tempel 1 and Hartley 2 (2005)
• Rosetta - ESA Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2004)
• CONTOUR - NASA Mission to fly by three comet nuclei (2002)
• Genesis - NASA Discovery Solar Wind Sample Return Mission (2001)
• Stardust - NASA Discovery Mission to collect samples from Comet P/Wild 2 (1999)
• Deep Space 1 - NASA Flyby Mission to comet Borrelly and asteroid Braille (1998)
• Galileo - NASA Mission to Jupiter, imaged Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact (1989)
• Giotto - ESA mission to Comets Halley and Grigg-Skjellerup
• ICE (ISEE-3) - NASA Mission to Comet Giacobini-Zinner
• Sakigake - Japanese ISAS mission to Comet Halley
• Suisei - Japanese ISAS mission to Comet Halley
• Vega 1 - Soviet mission to Venus and Comet Halley
• Vega 2 - Soviet mission to Venus and Comet Halley

Data

• Images of Comets (Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging)
• Images of Comets (NSSDCA Photo Gallery)
• Images and Information on the Comet SL-9 collision with Jupiter
• Chiron Perihelion Campaign (CPC)
• International Halley Watch CD-ROMs
• Giotto Grigg-Skjellerup Encounter Data on CD-ROM
• Shoemaker-Levy 9/Jupiter Collision CD-ROMs
• Galileo CD-ROMs
• Galileo CD-ROM volume 16 - images of Shoemaker-Levy 9

Press Releases

• Mysterious Sedna - Astronomers have discovered a mysterious planet-like body in the distant reaches of the solar system. - NASA Science News, 15 March 2004
• First Rotation Period of a Kuiper Belt Object Measured - European Space Agency press release, 5 November 1998
• New Kuiper Belt Object Discovered, possibly larger than Ceres - Minor Planet Circular, 1 December 2000
• Kuiper Belt Object with Diameter of roughly 1300 km Discovered - NASA Press Release, 7 October 2002
• Most Distant Object In Solar System Discovered - NASA Press Release, 15 March 2004