Resources for K-12 Education: Astronomy and Space Sciences

Resources About Comets

Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page (most comprehensive resource):http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/index.html
http://128.165.1.1/solarsys/comet.htm
Comet observation homepage------- http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/
Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for Non-Astronomers: http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/hale_bopp_info.html
Comets Section in "The Nine Planets":http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/comets.html
Web resource on: Cosmology, the Solar System and SETI, a Web module for our course PHY105/106: Science for the 21st Century (http://physics.syr.edu/courses/PHY106): http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/SETI/
ESA Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen (year 2013): http://www.esrin.esa.it/tidc/info/1997/9711.html
NASA: especially: Today@NASA, and resources for educators: http://www.nasa.gov
"Comets": a Scientific American book - collection of articles published in Scientific American
"Foundations of Astronomy", by Michael Seeds

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Resources for teaching astronomy and space sciences in K-12, including consulting: http://physics.syr.edu/courses/K-12/Astro/

Don't forget to visit the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Module: http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/SETI/

For more information, contact:

Gianfranco Vidali
gvidali@syr.edu
Syracuse University
201 Physics Bldg.
Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1130
(315) 443-9115