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Comets & Asteroids

Levy, David H. Comets: Creators and Destroyers. Simon & Schuster, 1998. Introduction for nonscientists.

Levy, David H. Impact Jupiter: The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Plenum, 1995. Written by one of the comet's discoverers.

Peebles, Curtis. Asteroids: A History. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. A history of our current understanding of asteroids.

Sagan, Carl, and Ann Druyan. Comet. Rev. ed. Ballantine, 1997. Discussion of the origin, nature, and fate of comets.

Yeomans, Donald K. Comets: A Chronological History of Observation, Science, Myth, and Folklore. Wiley, 1991. From an expert on interplanetary phenomena.

For younger readers

Koppes, Steven N. Killer Rocks from Outer Space: Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites. Lerner, 2003. Discussion of historic impacts, for readers in grades 5 to 8.

Kraske, Robert. Asteroids: Invaders from Space. Simon & Schuster, 1995, 1998. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Marsh, Carole. Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors. Twenty-First Century, 1996. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Simon, Seymour. Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids. Morrow, 1998. For readers in grades 3 to 5.