Astronomy: Solar System: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors: Asteroids

Basic information about asteroids, history of asteroid discovery, Bode's Law.

Description, data on selected asteroids, images.

Tools to help observers select targets and plan observations. Also, orbital elements, reference star catalog data and software, link to Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search (LONEOS).

Indexed, searchable database of asteroid data.

NASA JPL asteroid research using radar. Introduction, scientific activity, asteroid images.

Background information, details on selected asteroids, image gallery.

Listing and description of dynamical groups and physical families of asteroids.

Italian organization of minor planet observers. Histograms and scatter plots of asteroid orbital elements. Ephemeridies, opposition dates, conjunctions with Messier objects, shareware applications.

Photometry and shape modeling program, magnitude alert project, finder charts, visual observing of minor planets.

Lightcurve collaboration, physical studies, software, Palmer Divide Observatory.

By Jure Skvare. Downloads and web based services useful to asteroid observers. Fitsblink, asteroid server, fitsjd, fits2pg, fitsfrompg, asteroid identifier, residual calculator.

Continuous news feed, reading list of books.

Covers history, asteroid composition, Earth collisions.

Common questions.

Dynamical groups of asteroids, mathematical formulas, the Tunguska event.

A review of current knowledge of this dynamical group. Overview, low eccentricity Hildas, the Schubart family, numbered Hildas of the Palomar-Leiden survey.