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Welcome to the Planets: Small Bodies

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/choices/smallbod1.htm

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

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USGS Astrogeology: Other Objects

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/SolarSystem/OtherObjects/

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

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The Small Bodies

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-345/ch4.htm

Provides detailed information on asteroids, comets and meteoroids.

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Startdate Online: Leftovers

http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/leftovers.html

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

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Small Bodies

http://www.snark.org/sb.htm

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

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Planetary Data System: Small Bodies Node

http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/

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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Orbits

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/

Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.

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NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spacewatch/

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

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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.

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Minor Planet Center

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.

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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.

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Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/neo/

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

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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.

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Comets and Asteroids News

http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/

Latest news and information about comets and asteroids proved by Remanzacco Observatory, Italy.

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Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software

http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/

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

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Catalogue of the Solar System: Small Bodies Orbital Evolution

http://smallbodies.ru/

Provides information about asteroids of the Aten, Apollo and Amor groups and periodic comets. In English and Russian.

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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.

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Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids

http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_hottopic&id=8

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

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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.

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