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PASS Planetarium Activities for Student Success Please send new material for this page to Alan Gould <agould@uclink4.berkeley.edu> News and Articles on Comets Online Articles Edible comets http://www.astro.washington.edu/labs/clearinghouse/activities/ediblecomets.html and http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/educ/ Sep 27, 2001 AGING NASA SPACECRAFT CAPTURES BEST-EVER VIEW OF COMET'S COREftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2001/01-186.txt -- In a risky flyby, NASA's ailing Deep Space 1 spacecraft successfully navigated past a comet, giving researchers the best look ever inside the glowing core of icy dust and gas. RELEASE: 01-186. September 18, 2001 VETERAN SPACECRAFT ATTEMPTS TO EARN EXTRA CREDIT AT COMET -- ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2001/01-184.txt Like a slugger trying to pile up extra home runs after breaking the world record, a venerable NASA spacecraft already famed for bringing science fiction's ion-engine technology to life is preparing to fly daringly close to a comet on Saturday, Sept. 22. RELEASE: 01-184 Aug 7, 2000 HUBBLE DISCOVERS MISSING PIECES OF COMET LINEAR -- http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2000/27/ July 28, 2000 HUBBLE SEES COMET LINEAR BLOW ITS TOP, the comet's equivalent of a volcanic explosion--material jettisoned from the nucleus and floated away along the comet's tail. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2000/26. Hardcopy Articles Weed, William Speed, Chasing a Comet, Astronomy Magazine, Sept, 2001 p. 30. H3>Hardcopy Books Burnham, Robert, Great Comets, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Crovisier, Jacques, and Encrenaz, Therese, Comet Science: The Study of RFemnants from the Birth of the Solar System. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Williams, John, Observations of Comets from B.C. 611 to A.D. 1640, Translated from Chinese Annals, Arcturus Press, Lincolnshire, England.

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