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URL's to sites about comets and the Solar System, past, present and future!

Check out the Stardust Project - a satellite that was built to fly close to a comet, photograph it, and collect interstellar dust particles.
Killer link to the freshest daily pictures of Comet Hale-Bopp from telescopes around the world.
Kids Do Comets!
Hale-Bopp for Kids!
Inventive artwork and important facts about comets by fourth graders from Happy Valley Elementry School.
Comets at University of Hawaii This is an excellant general site, and the author, Dr. Jewitt is a leading Kuiper Belt investigator.
Comets and Meteor Showers

Washington Univ. at St. Louis
Includes info on comets currently visible, upcoming meteor showers and links to other meteor sites
Comet Hyakutake

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
Over 1000 images and news of emerging scientific results on 1996's most prominent celestial visitor
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

University of Arizona
A good starting point, by Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

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