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• HowStuffWorks.com, "How Comets Work." http://science.howstuffworks.com/comet.htm
• NASA, "Deep Impact: Science." http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/science/
• NASA, "Deep Impact: Technology." http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/
• NASA, "Deep Impact: Mission." http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/di-name.html
• "Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science," DK Publishing, Inc., 1998.