Giant Impact

Web Site About Meteoritics

Bill Arnett at the University of Arizona offers a number of web pages about meteoritics and small bodies in the solar system.

Small Bodies introduces the subject and talks about the differences among comets, asteroids, and meteorites.
Asteroids talks about asteroids in general.
Comets talks about comets in general.
Comet Halley talks about the most famous periodic comet in history.
Meteors, Meteorites and Impacts introduces basic meteorite facts.
SL9 discusses the breakup and impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 onto Jupiter.

The web pages of the Meteorite and Impacts Advisory Committee to the Canadian Space Agency contains information about meteorites and impact structures in French and English.

My astronomy page provides more links to sites with information on meteoritics.

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Last modified by pib on May 12, 2009.