Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
Categories
- Near Earth Objects (28)
- Observatories (8)
Links
Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software
http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/
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
http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/csbn/
Group responsible for the naming of asteroids and comets. Description of the naming process, guidelines for submitting name proposals.
Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/templates/flash/neo/neo.htm
Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
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
http://www.williams.edu/astronomy/jay/chapter20_etu6.html
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
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html
International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Other
Selected NASA images.
Nine Planets: Sedna
http://www.nineplanets.org/sedna.html
General information on the object officially known as 2003 VB12. This object is the most distant body known that orbits our Sun.