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Title/Name Description LabelID ResourceType Location
Comet Halley   B9.1 Posters CSS 1203
Comets   B9.2 Posters CSS 1203
Comet Hyakutake   B9.4 Posters CSS 1203
Comet Hale-Bopp and the Milky Way   B9.5 Posters CSS 1203
Comet West   B9.6 Posters CSS 1203
Meteorites   B9.7 Posters CSS 1203
Meteorites Collection of small meteorites, individually labeled   Demonstrations CSS 1203
Halley's Comet in cabinet HC/HI Slide Sets CSS 1110
Comets, Meteors, Asteroids in cabinet H Slide Sets CSS 1110
Shoemaker-Levy 9   Binder: Solar System 3 Slide Sets CSS 1110
Halley's Comet Revealed   Binder: Solar System 3 Slide Sets CSS 1110
HST 4: Shoemaker-Levy 9 HST images of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's collison with Jupiter. Binder: HST Slide Sets CSS 1110
Comets and Asteroids Cosmic Travelers Series: Program examines effects of past impacts of comets and asteroids on Earth and elsewhere in solar system. Also discusses plans to protect from another impact C24 Videos CSS 1112
Sudden Impact: Meteors Part of the Cosmic Travelers series; Re-enactments of meteorite impacts. 3-D animations of impacts and possible strategies to protect Earth C22 Videos CSS 1112
Final Target: Planet Earth Part of the Cosmic Travelers Series. Explores the present efforts to locate and observe objects that might impact the Earth C23 Videos CSS 1112
Meteorites-Menace from the Sky A discussion of the historical and scientific role of meteorites in our world B13 Videos CSS 1112
Comets Prentice Hall produced video on comets C20 Videos CSS 1112
Comet Halley - Once in a Lifetime   I01 Education Book Collection CSS 1112


Last Updated: Thursday October 04, 2007 by Elizabeth Warner
University of Maryland UM Astronomy Department
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