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Search Home : Science : Astronomy : Solar System : Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
- Asteroid/Comet Connection: A digest of news related to asteroids, comets, and meteors. Monitors changes in impact risk calculations. Includes links to original sources of information.
- Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid: Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.
- Asteroids - their history: Introduction paper on asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects.
- Asteroids Comets Meteors (ACM): A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. Dates and links of past meetings.
- Asteroids and Comets: Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
- Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites: Their Intimate Relation with Life on Earth: A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
- Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids: Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.
- BBC NEWS: Astronomers Discover 'New Planet': A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna.
- Chiron Information and Documentation: A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.
- Comet and Meteors Workshop: Organization that collects and analyzes meteor data. Articles, images, data, software, links.
- Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software: A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.
- Comets and Meteor Showers: Includes news, information, professional and amateur observations as well as historical research. Compiled by Gary W. Kronk.
- Committee on Small Body Nomenclature: Group responsible for the naming of asteroids and comets. Description of the naming process, guidelines for submitting name proposals.
- Dr. Odenwald's Ask the Astronomer page: Asteroids, Meteors and Comets: Extensive FAQ.
- Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks: Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
- Margate Public Library: Asteroids: Directory grouped by Asteroids, Asteroid Belt, Comets, Kuiper Belt, Meteors.
- Meteorica: Catalog of names associated with small body impacts. Meteors, meteorites, craters, impact structures, and tektites, both on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
- Meteorites and Asteroids: Companion `resource` to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.
- Meteors: Information on meteors and their observation. Includes online purchasing of stone chondrite and iron meteorites.
- Minor Planet Center: International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
- Minor Planet Mailing List: Forum for discussion of asteroids and comets.
- NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets: Selected NASA images.
- NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid: Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
- Nine Planets: Sedna: General information on the object officially known as 2003 VB12. This object is the most distant body known that orbits our Sun.
- Orbits: Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
- Peter G. Brown: Research in fireballs, meteorite falls, and near Earth objects.
- Planetary Data System: Small Bodies Node: Data concerning asteroids and comets, in a standard format for use primarily by astronomical observers and mission planners, as well as educators and students.
- Small Bodies: Link collection covering the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, near Earth objects, and impacts.
- Spacelink: Small Bodies: Instructional materials from NASA on Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors.
- Startdate Online: Leftovers: Fact sheets on asteroids and comets, index to radio broadcasts on related topics. From the McDonald Observatory.
- The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System: Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.
- The Physics of: Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids: Physics of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Application with Newton's and Kepler's Laws, kinetic and potential energy.
- USGS Astrogeology: Other Objects: Official names of features on asteroids as approved by the International Astronomical Union. Data and images for selected asteroids and comets.
- Welcome to the Planets: Small Bodies: Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.
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