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Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/nearearthasteroids.html
Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.

Asteroid/Comet Connection
http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/news.htm
A digest of news related to asteroids, comets, and meteors. Monitors changes in impact risk calculations. Includes links to original sources of information.

Asteroids - their history
http://www.cosmicelk.co.uk/asteroids.htm
Introduction paper on asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects.

Asteroids and Comets
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html
Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.

Asteroids Comets Meteors (ACM)
http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/acm_eng.html
A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. Dates and links of past meetings.

Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites: Their Intimate Relation with Life on Earth
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/6/96.06.03.x.html
A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=&topic=8
Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.

BBC NEWS: Astronomers Discover 'New Planet'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3511678.stm
A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna.

Chiron Information and Documentation
http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/www.astro/chihp.htm
A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.

Comet and Meteors Workshop
http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/~skoczews/pkim/eng_index.shtml
Organization that collects and analyzes meteor data. Articles, images, data, software, 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
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/
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.

Dr. Odenwald's Ask the Astronomer page: Asteroids, Meteors and Comets
http://www.itss.raytheon.com/cafe/qadir/ametcom.html
Extensive FAQ.

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.

Margate Public Library: Asteroids
http://www.margatelibrary.org/asteroids.html
Directory grouped by Asteroids, Asteroid Belt, Comets, Kuiper Belt, Meteors.

Meteorica
http://www.meteorica.info/
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
http://www.meteors.com/
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.

Minor Planet Mailing List
http://www.bitnik.com/mp/
Forum for discussion 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.

NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spacewatch/
Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.

Orbits
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/
Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.

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