Education

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.

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.

Images

Stardust image gallery
100+ images of the Stardust spacecraft, the launch, testing and artists' impressions of the mission.

Animations

Genesis video gallery MPEG video clips of Stardust's launch

Time-lapse MPEGS of pre-launch assembly

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 the comets or the Stardust mission contact the UK Goes to the Planets Co-ordinator, Anita Heward. anitaheward@btinternet.com