Small Bodies Solar System Astronomy

Data concerning asteroids and comets, in a standard format for use primarily by astronomical observers and mission planners, as well as educators and students.

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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.

• Meteorites and Asteroids - Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links astronomy and current solar system news about meteorites and asteroids.
• Small Bodies - Link collection covering the Kuiper Belt and Oort small bodies Cloud, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, near Earth small bodies objects, and impacts.
• The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System - Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, small bodies links.
• Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks - Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special solar system attention small bodies to the impact hazard to Earth.
• Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid - Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.
• Orbits - Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and small bodies comets.
• USGS Astrogeology: Other Objects - Official names of features on asteroids as approved small bodies by solar system the International Astronomical Union. Data and small bodies images for solar system selected asteroids and comets.
• The Physics of: Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids - Physics of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Application with small bodies Newton\'s astronomy and Kepler's Laws, kinetic and potential energy.
• NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid - Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, astronomy general information on comets.
• Committee on Small Body Nomenclature - Group responsible for the naming of asteroids and astronomy comets. Description of the naming process, guidelines astronomy for submitting name proposals.
• Planetary Data System: Small Bodies Node - Data concerning asteroids and comets, in a standard format for small bodies use primarily by astronomical observers and mission planners, as well small bodies as educators and students.
• Minor Planet Center - International clearing house for observations of asteroids and astronomy comets.
• Chiron Information and Documentation - A minor body with dual status as both astronomy asteroid and solar system comet.
• NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets - Selected NASA images.
• Asteroids and Comets - Data from across NASA, compiled at the National solar system Space astronomy Science Data Center.
• Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites: Their Intimate Relation with Life on Earth - A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
• Startdate Online: Leftovers - Fact sheets on asteroids and comets, index to solar system radio broadcasts on related topics. From the solar system McDonald Observatory.
• Asteroids Comets Meteors (ACM) - A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. solar system Dates and links of past meetings.
• Nine Planets: Sedna - General information on the object officially known as small bodies 2003 solar system VB12. This object is the most distant small bodies body known solar system that orbits our Sun.
• Welcome to the Planets: Small Bodies - Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and astronomy Halley, representative astronomy meteorites.
• Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software - A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids astronomy and comets.
• BBC NEWS: Astronomers Discover 'New Planet' - A telescope has detected what could be the solar system Solar small bodies System's 10th planet, Sedna.
• Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids - Selected articles, usually with some connection to life solar system on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.

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