 Reference Shelf
Welcome to the Reference Shelf!
The Reference Shelf is a list of pages on the World
Wide Web that contain basic information about the solar system and
Shoemaker-Levy 9, with links to lots of other pages. Think of it as a shelf
full of multimedia "books" that you can use when you do your
research. To start using any of these resources, just click on its name.
At this site, you can take a tour
of the solar system, stopping to read about each of the planets as well as
experience some of the sights and sounds related to each planet.
This is part of Bill Arnett's
page The Nine Planets. It has
definitions of terms ranging from accretion to zodiacal light.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
works closely with NASA in exploring the solar system and provides a great
deal of information about its research on the Internet. This page is full of
facts about and images of Jupiter.
Some parts of this page were
created before Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 -- or "SL9" -- collided with
Jupiter. Other parts of the page have been updated more recently. (It might
be interesting to compare predictions to what actually happened.) There are
links to many other sites, including places to find images of the impact.
The NSSDC provides detailed
information about the comet and the impact, with links to images from many
different sources, including the Hubble Space Telescope.
JPL's site devoted to
Shoemaker-Levy 9 is perhaps the most extensive, and it has links to some
other excellent SL9 sites. Its Latest Conclusions
section has links to magazine articles on the topic.
This site pays tribute to Eugene
Shoemaker, the discoverer of SL9, who died in 1997. A portion of his remains
were sent to the moon for burial.
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to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Activity Page.
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