Education

ASE: Catch the Comet - KS3
Multimedia game linked to KS3 National Curriculum. Page includes links to further information about the Rosetta mission.

Amazing Space: Comets - KS2-3 (Developed as US Grades 5-8)
Information about comets and an interactive comet maker plus teachers notes and lesson plans.

Stardust mission homepage - KS2-3 (developed for US grades 5-8)
Series of educator's guides in PDF format. Includes lesson plans and activities based on "Cooking up a comet", origins of comets, spacecraft design and testing, plus a series of factsheets.

Images

ESA Rosetta image gallery
180+ images of the Rosetta spacecraft under construction, artists' impressions of the mission and its target

NASA Planetary Photojournal
Images of Comets and asteroids

Crni Vrh Observatory
Images of Comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko

Circolo AStrofili Talmassons
Images of Comet 67P/Churymov Gerasimenko

Animations

ESA
5 MPEG animations showing details of the Rosetta mission and images of Halley's Comet taken by the Giotto spacecraft.

Clips relating to the Rosetta mission in the ESA TV archive

Models

Model of Ptolemy instrument available for short-term loan from the OU/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Contact Louise Hobbs l.r.hobbs@open.ac.uk

Computer models
3-D model of the Rosetta Spacecraft

Books

David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets
By David Levy. Published by Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521520517

The Cambridge Photographic Guide to the Planets
By Fred Taylor. Published by Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521781833

Speakers

UK goes to the Planets can provide experienced speakers for specialist and non-specialist audiences and for school groups. For speakers on comets and other Near Earth Objects contact the UK Goes to the Planets Co-ordinator, Anita Heward. anitaheward@btinternet.com