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Comets

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• Solar system

• Comets -- 1664
• Comets -- Collisions with Earth
• Comets -- Congresses
• Comets -- Fiction
• Comets -- Religious aspects

• Latin Treatises on Comets Between 1238 and 1368 A.D. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1950), ed. by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on Comets, Which Gained the First of Dr. Fellowe's prizes, Proposed to Those Who Had Attended the University of Edinburgh Within the Last Twelve Years (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Black, et al., 1828), by David Milne-Home (multiple formats at Google)
• The Exploration of Near Earth Objects, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Stories of Infinity: Lumen; History of a comet; In Infinity (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873), by Camille Flammarion, trans. by S. R. Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1883), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Astronomical Description of the Late Comet or Blazing Star, As it Appeared in New-England in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and in the Beginning of the 12th Moneth, 1664, by Samuel Danforth, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• In the Days of the Comet, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

• Workshop on Cometary Dust in Astrophysics: August 10-15, 2003, Crystal Mountain, Washington (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2003), ed. by Donald Brownlee, Lindsay P. Keller, and Scott R. Messenger (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• The Year When Stardust Fell (Philadelphia and Toronto: J. C. Winston Co., c1958), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by James Heugh and Alex Schomburg
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• An Astronomical Description of the Late Comet or Blazing Star, As it Appeared in New-England in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and in the Beginning of the 12th Moneth, 1664, by Samuel Danforth, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Evolution of the Solar System (1976), by Hannes Alfven and Gustaf Arrhenius (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Meteorites and the Early Solar System (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1988), ed. by John F. Kerridge and Mildred Shapley Matthews (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Other Worlds: Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Garrett Putman Serviss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (3 volumes in 1; Annapolis: St. John's Bookstore, c1939), by Nicolaus Copernicus, trans. by Charles Glenn Wallis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1917), by Dorothy Stimson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Solaria Binaria: Origins and History of the Solar System, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet (ca. 1915), by Percival Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mathematical and Philosophical Works Of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1708), by John Wilkins (page images at Google)

• Clavis Caelestis: Being the Explication of a Diagram, Entituled A Synopsis of the Universe or, The Visible World Epitomiz’d (with a reconstructed interactive diagram; first published 1742), by Thomas Wright, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)

• Exploring the Solar System: A Professional Development Training (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2016) (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• New Moons: Towing Asteroids into Earth Orbits for Exploration and Exploitation: Transcripts of the Presentations at the Special Session of the Eighth Lunar Science Conference, 16 March 1977, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1977), ed. by David R. Criswell (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Protostars and Planets IV (c2000), ed. by Vincent Mannings, Alan Boss, and Sara S. Russell (PDF at Arizona)

• On a Lark to the Planets: A Sequel to "The Wonderful Electric Elephant" (Akron, OH et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1922), by Frances Trego Montgomery, illust. by Winifred D. Elrod (page images at HathiTrust)

• Protostars and Planets: Studies of Star Formation and the Origin of the Solar System (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1978), ed. by Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, by Lunar and Planetary Institute (partial serial archives)

• Exploring the Trans-Neptunian Solar System, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet (ca. 1915), by Percival Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pluto System After New Horizons: July 14-18, 2019, Laurel, Maryland, ed. by Harold A. Weaver (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Exploring the Trans-Neptunian Solar System, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Genethlialogia, or, The Doctrine of Nativities, Containing the Whole Art of Directions, and Annual Revolutions (London: Printed by J. Cottrel for G. Calvert, 1658), by John Gadbury (PDF at astrologiamedieval.com)

• The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac (full serial archives)

• Improved Lunar Ephemeris, 1952-1959: A Joint Supplement to the American Ephemeris and the (British) Nautical Almanac (Washington: GPO, 1954), by United States Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office and Great Britain Nautical Almanac Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Protecting the Space Station From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris (1997), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Exploration of Near Earth Objects, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Protecting the Space Shuttle From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Physics of Meteor Flight in the Atmosphere (New York and London: Interscience Publishers, 1958), by Ernst Julius Öpik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traces of Catastrophe: A Handbook of Shock-Metamorphic Effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, c1998), by Bevan M. French (PDF files at usra.edu)

• Kant's Cosmogony: As in His Essay on the Retardation of the Rotation of the Earth and His Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1900), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by W. Hastie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011), ed. by Douglas A. Vakoch (multiple formats with commentary at NASA)
• Toward Distant Suns (originally published 1979), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
• Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science, by Homer E. Newell (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Space Technology for the New Century, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Protostars and Planets III (Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press, c1993), ed. by Eugene H. Levy and Jonathan Irving Lunine (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Geology of the Terrestrial Planets (1984), by M. H. Carr, R. Stephen Saunders, Robert G. Strom, and Don E. Wilhelms (PDF files at usra.edu)
• Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (partial serial archives)
• Const-Toonneel, Inhoudende de Beschrijvinghe ende XL. Heerlijcke Afbeeldindinghen Onses Heeren Jesu Christi, met Sijne Apostelen, Ende Evangelisten, Midtsgaders de Hooft-Deuchden Ende Ondeuchden; Ende Ten Laetsten de Seven Planeten (in Dutch; Delff: N. de Clerck, 1609), by Nicolaes De Clerck, illust. by Jan Wierix
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Planetary Satellites (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1977), ed. by Joseph A. Burns (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun (c2003), by Jay M. Pasachoff (PDF files at Harvard)
• A New Sun: The Solar Results from Skylab (1979), by John A. Eddy, ed. by Rein Ise (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet (ca. 1915), by Percival Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.