Solar System: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors

International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.

Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.

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

Instructional materials from NASA on Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors.

Selected NASA images.

Official names of features on asteroids as approved by the International Astronomical Union. Data and images for selected asteroids and comets.

Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.

A digest of news related to asteroids, comets, and meteors. Monitors changes in impact risk calculations. Includes links to original sources of information.

Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.

Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.

Fact sheets on asteroids and comets, index to radio broadcasts on related topics. From the McDonald Observatory.

A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.

A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. Dates and links of past meetings.

Group responsible for the naming of asteroids and comets. Description of the naming process, guidelines for submitting name proposals.

Link collection covering the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, near Earth objects, and impacts.

Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.

Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.

A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.

A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna.

Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.

Information on meteors and their observation. Includes online purchasing of stone chondrite and iron meteorites.

Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.

General information on the object officially known as 2003 VB12. This object is the most distant body known that orbits our Sun.

Introduction paper on asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects.