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Wikipedia: Near-Earth object

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object

Encyclopedia article covers collision danger, spacecraft access, efforts to catalog NEOs, classifications, impact hazard scales.

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Understanding the Distribution of Near Earth Objects.

http://www.obs-nice.fr/morby/ESA/esa.html

Technical paper describing sources and orbital evolution of near Earth objects, and implications for NEO search efforts.

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Ondrejov NEO Photometric Program

http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo_old.htm

Activities at Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic, for photometry and astrometry of NEOs. Project news, binary near Earth asteroids, people involved, lists of light curve parameters.

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NeoDys, Near Earth Objects - Dynamic Site

http://newton.dm.unipi.it/neodys/

Searchable database of near Earth asteroids, risk calculations for possible collisions with Earth, orbit calculation software.

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National Space Centre: Near Earth Objects

http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/Page.aspx/6/NEAR_EARTH_OBJECTS/

Virtual exhibition and online activities on the nature of NEOs and the hazard they pose, what efforts are being made to detect NEOs and avert collisions.

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JPL Near-Earth Object Program

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

NASA NEO Program Office at JPL. Overview, press releases, FAQ, 3D orbit viewer. Research information and statistics, including risk calculations for possible collisions with Earth.

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IAU / Near Earth Objects

http://www.iau.org/public_press/themes/neo/

Summary of research on near Earth objects, activities of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Near Earth Objects (WGNEO).

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FMO Project

http://fmo.lpl.arizona.edu/FMO_home/index.cfm

A public program offered by the University of Arizona's Spacewatch Project. Volunteers review images to help find NEOs that the computers miss.

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Earth Satellites for Asteroid Hunters

http://users.adam.com.au/dberesford/neosat.html

Data and software useful for identifying artificial satellites which might be mistaken for unknown near-Earth asteroids.

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Dynamics of Small Bodies

http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/

Offers essays by a university teacher on near Earth object with unusual orbits, such as 3753 Cruithne, 2002 AA29, hypothetical Earth trojans and quasi-satellites.

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DLR-Archenhold Near Earth Objects Precovery Survey (DANEOPS)

http://earn.dlr.de/daneops/

A project to search photographic plate archives for images of known NEOs. Procedures used, team members, images and measurements of successful precoveries.

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AstroGuard

http://www.astroguard.com/

News and information about advance warning of asteroid or cometary impacts.

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Asteroid 1937 UB Hermes

http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~s24/hermes.htm

Efforts on 1937 UB "Hermes", a long-lost Apollo asteroid, rediscovered in 2003, now numbered (69230) Hermes.

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Arcetri Near Earth Object Precovery Program (ANEOPP)

http://www.arcetri.astro.it/science/aneopp/

A search for NEO images in existing photographic plate archives. Archives used, procedures, personnel involved, sample images.

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