Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software
A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.
home.earthlink.net

Asteroid G
Articles, links, member information, images, and tour schedules.
members.fortunecity.com

Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey II
Data sets and references to scientific literature describing results.
smass.mit.edu

Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth
Short article examining how much danger Asteroid 2002 NT7 poses to the Earth.
space.about.com

Wikipedia: Asteroid
Encyclopedia article covers history, groups of asteroids, spectral types. Tables of largest and notable asteroids.
www.wikipedia.org

The Eros Project
Space property rights - attempt at legal recognition for a claim to the asteroid Eros.
www.erosproject.com

Caveat Impactor
Provides a timeline and a history of events related to asteroid 2002 NT7 and explains the low chances of an impact with Earth.
science.nasa.gov

Asteroid Discovery Circumstances
For each minor planet: Where and when found, and by whom.
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov

The green asteroid - A Jun Jun shrine
Information and profile, anime and manga image galleries, quotes, and some mythology information.
mercury_princess.tripod.com

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

Galactic Encounters, Apollo Objects and Atlantis
Discusses Apollo asteroid objects, their collisions with Earth, the Ice Age, and how these relate to Atlantis and the Great Flood. By Emilio Spedicato
www.unibg.it

Doomsday Asteroid
Countdown clock for possible impact with asteroid 1997 XF11, threats of other asteroids, recent close calls.
home.netcom.com

Avalon Fleet Yards
Avalon Fleet Yards is a Construction, Research and Development, as well as Science-oriented Station in the Raeyan Asteroid belt, Sector 349.
www.bravofleet.com

Gold rush in space?
Article on NEAR's first encounter with Eros. Suggests that the asteroid may contain trillions of dollars worth of precious metals.
news.bbc.co.uk

NEAR Information
Detailed mission information, images, and links related to the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov

Welcome to Asteroid X!
Online fan club for the X-Men family of Marvel comics.
members.aol.com

Asteroid 1937 UB Hermes
Efforts on 1937 UB "Hermes", a long-lost Apollo asteroid, rediscovered in 2003, now numbered (69230) Hermes.
www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de

Encore Flight Mulled for Amazing Asteroid Lander
On the morning after the NASA robot ship made the first landing on an asteroid, mission scientists were trying to figure out how much more science they could squeeze from the small craft.
www.cnn.com

Space.com: More Moons Around Earth?
Article describing the asteroid Cruithne, and orbital motions at gravitational balance points in space that temporarily pull asteroids into Earth orbits.
www.space.com

Joni Virolainen's Fading Suns page
Characters and house rules from Joni's Fading Suns game, including information on the asteroid "Sulatto."
koti.welho.com

UAI Minor Planets Section
Italian organization of minor planet observers. Histograms and scatter plots of asteroid orbital elements. Ephemeridies, opposition dates, conjunctions with Messier objects, shareware applications.
www.uai.it

Abaraba
Several originals for OpenGL on Windows including 'Star Wars' and 'DarkSide of the BIG Asteroid'.
www.geocities.com

Crni Vrh Observatory
Asteroid and comet observation at Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia.
www.fiz.uni-lj.si

Clementine Project Information
The objective of the mission was to test sensors and spacecraft components under extended exposure to the space environment and to make scientific observations of the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos. Flight plan, detailed information, and related links.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov

Earth Satellites for Asteroid Hunters
Data and software useful for identifying artificial satellites which might be mistaken for unknown near-Earth asteroids.
home.iprimus.com.au

Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)
NASA JPL program to search for near Earth asteroids. Statistics, press releases, FAQ, telescope information, searchable image archive.
neat.jpl.nasa.gov

Asteroids
As a lone fighter pilot leading a convoy of bulk cruisers into deep space, you job is to blow a way through the uncharted asteroid field. (Windows)
www.adders.org

Asteroid Articles
Archive of articles posted at the Planetary Science Research Discoveries site at the University of Hawaii.
www.psrd.hawaii.edu

The Preparation: Space Colonization
Detailed discussion by Rex Stephens about his book on the need for space colonization, asteroid mining, and transhumans.
thepreparation.net

Minor Planet Center Orbit Database
Ftp access to the complete set of minor planet (asteroid) orbits generated and compiled by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. MPCORB contains orbits for every object for which it is possible to make a reasonable prediction of where the object is. MPCORB currently contains over 30000 orbits.
ftp://cfa-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/MPCORB

Introduction to Asteroids
Covers history, asteroid composition, Earth collisions.
www.mira.org

Fletcher, Darrell
Cold Venture. Adventure in space, alien technologies, from the asteroid belt, saturn, and beyond. Along with the author's bio, there is a science fiction discussion group.
www.coldventure.com

The Asteroid World
Categorization of asteroids by their orbits and physical properties.
www.astrosurf.com

GameScene
Several fun Shockwave games including Dogs Playing Poker and Asteroid Command.
www.gamescene.com

Asteroid Adventure
Brief description of the film, designed for simulator rides, filmed at 48 frames per second for dome screens.
www.bigmoviezone.com

Astronomy Related Rrograms
By Jure Skvare. Downloads and web based services useful to asteroid observers. Fitsblink, asteroid server, fitsjd, fits2pg, fitsfrompg, asteroid identifier, residual calculator.
www-rcp.ijs.si

Impacts Into Asteroids
Theoretical studies of impacts of one asteroid into another, and tsunami effects of an asteroid impact on Earth.
www.es.ucsc.edu

Near Earth Asteroid Prospector
First planned commercial deep-space mission to near earth asteroid 1998 KY26 by the SpaceDev commercial corporation. Includes overview of the mission and information on the asteroid.
www.spacedev.com

Physical studies of asteroids at Poznan Observatory
Light curves, database of asteroid spin vectors.
www.astro.amu.edu.pl

Chiron Information and Documentation
A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.
www.vub.ac.be

1908 Siberia Explosion: Reconstructing an Asteroid Impact from Eyewitness Accounts
Descriptions of the Tunguska impact event. Researched, written, and illustrated by William K. Hartmann.
www.psi.edu

Asteroid Solutions
Offers web design, hosting, domain name registration, e-solutions, software development, CD authoring, graphic and print design, hardware sales and networking. Located in Juhu, Mumbai, India.
www.asteroidsolutions.com

Asteroid Senshi headquarters
Includes general character information and analysis, image galleries from the anime and manga, quotes, polls, and fan fiction of the Amazoness Quartet.
www.geocities.com

Frogs Of War
Multiplayer platformer for Windows in which you must escape from an asteroid mine.
www.fullsack.com

Maelstrom
You pilot your ship through the dreaded "Maelstrom" asteroid belt, the deadliest stretch of space. Available on Linux, Windows, BeOS, or Mac. (Open Source)
www.devolution.com

Galleria 2433
Ideas for colonizing the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and the galaxy.
interzone.com

NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets
Selected NASA images.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov

Solar System Collisions
Online calculator for effects of asteroid impact.
janus.astro.umd.edu

Asteroid Radar Research
NASA JPL asteroid research using radar. Introduction, scientific activity, asteroid images.
echo.jpl.nasa.gov

European Southern Observatory: Virtual Telescope Observes Large Asteroid
European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76
www.eso.org

Asteroid Comet Impact Hazards
NASA Ames Research Center brings you reports, a Torino impact hazard scale, the latest news, and an image gallery.
impact.arc.nasa.gov

Solar System Exploration: Asteroids
Basic description, overview of asteroid science.
solarsystem.nasa.gov

AstDys, Asteroids - Dynamic Site
Indexed, searchable database of asteroid data.
hamilton.dm.unipi.it

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

Asteroids and Remote Planets Section
Section of the British Astronomical Association. Asteroid finder charts, articles on observing techniques.
yan.open.ac.uk

Serra Designs - Asteroid Model Series
Scientifically accurate scale models of asteroids.
www.serradesignsinc.com

Asteroid Observing Services from Lowell Observatory
Tools to help observers select targets and plan observations. Also, orbital elements, reference star catalog data and software, link to Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search (LONEOS).
asteroid.lowell.edu

Pluto: the Accidental Planet
Its status: small planet or large asteroid? Includes facts related to its history. By John Shepler.
www.johnshepler.com

Sormano Astronomical Observatory
Asteroid, comet, and meteor images, computations of close approaches, history articles.
www.brera.mi.astro.it

Jacob Schwartz, Ph.D
Articles about asteroids and astrology, with analysis of the September 11th terrorist attacks and Timothy McVeigh's chart. Also features a complete asteroid name list.
www.asteroids.com

Pluto: Asteroid or Planet?
Looks at possible histories leading to its existence.
www.astro.rug.nl

Astro Works Corporation
Manufactures the Centurion 18 telescope system which features a focal ratio of f/2.8. These instruments are designed for moderately wide field CCD imaging applications and asteroid patrols.
www.astroworks.com

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous at Eros
MultiSpectral Imager (MSI) research and Eros mission data.
cps.earth.northwestern.edu

Impact Parameters
Online calculator for cratering effects of hypothetical asteroid impacts.
www.lpl.arizona.edu

Dan Durda's Research Interests
Airborne observations, Vulcanoids, various asteroid collision effects.
www.boulder.swri.edu

Asteroids and Comets
Basic information about near Earth asteroids and the hazard they pose to Earth. Asteroid origins, potentially hazardous asteroids, Earth crossing asteroids, Torino impact scale.
www.geocities.com

Orrery: Asteroids
Basic information about asteroids, history of asteroid discovery, Bode's Law.
www.harmsy.freeuk.com

Asteroid Groups
Graphs and animations showing major asteroid groups and families.
sajri.astronomy.cz

Bill Bottke's Asteroid Research
Collisions, tidal disruption, dynamics, planetary impacts, crater chains and doublet craters.
www.boulder.swri.edu

Asteroid Models
Research in determining asteroid shapes through photometric data and multiple data sources. Reference documents, introduction, links.
www.astro.helsinki.fi

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