Special Topics

• Terrestrial Impact Craters Information about meteor craters on Earth.
• Ring Systems Ring Systems throughout the solar system.
• Saturn Ring Crossing A page devoted to the period last year when the Earth passed through the plain of Saturn's rings. This offered a unique (well once every 11 years) chance to study the rings.
• Scott Hudson: Asteroid Shapes Information about the shape of some Asteroids.
• Classifying Galaxies An interactive course on the Hubble System of classifying Galaxies developed for the 5th through 9th grades by two members of the RAS, George & Jane Hastings.
• Amateur CCD Images A page devoted to CCD Images produced by Sam Bruce, a RAS member.  Showing what an amature can do with his own equipment.

• Comets in general
  • Comets Comet information from the Sky & Telescope pages.
  • Comet Observation Home Page A page devoted to comets published by JPL.
  • Comets and Meteor Showers General information on Comets and Meteor Showers.
• Hale Bopp
  • JPL JPL's Hale-Bopp page.
  • NASA Hale-Bopp and other comet pages.
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Hale-Bopp page.
• Hyakutake
  • Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) Comet Hyakutake, a bright comet that appeared around of March 96.
• Shoemaker-Levy 9
  • Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 JPL's page about Shoemaker-Levy 9 and it's impact on Jupiter.