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Arkansas Sky Observatory (Popularity:  )
http://www.arksky.org
Comet and minor planet astrometry and photometry, including NEO's and PHA's.
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Orbits (Popularity: )
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/
Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
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Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid (Popularity: )
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/nearearthasteroids.html
Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.
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Minor Planet Center (Popularity: )
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html
International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
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NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets (Popularity: )
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Other
Selected NASA images.
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NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid (Popularity: )
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spacewatch/
Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
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Planetary Data System: Small Bodies Node (Popularity: )
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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Spacelink: Small Bodies (Popularity: )
http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Space.Science/Our.Solar.System/Small.Bodies/
Instructional materials from NASA on Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors.
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Asteroids and Comets (Popularity: )
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html
Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
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Chiron Information and Documentation (Popularity: )
http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/www.astro/chihp.htm
A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.
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USGS Astrogeology: Other Objects (Popularity: )
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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1997 XF11 (Popularity: )
http://spacewatch.lpl.arizona.edu/1997XF11.html
Provides 3 black and white images that helped at the discovery of this object.
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Views of the Solar System: Asteroid Introduction (Popularity: )
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/asteroid.htm
Background information, details on selected asteroids, image gallery.
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Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software (Popularity: )
http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/
A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.
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Arcetri Near Earth Object Precovery Program (ANEOPP) (Popularity: )
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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Comet Information and the International Comet Quarterly (Popularity: )
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/icq.html
From the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. News, observations, orbital data, comet names and designations, links.
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NeoDys, Near Earth Objects - Dynamic Site (Popularity: )
http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo
Searchable database of near Earth asteroids, risk calculations for possible collisions with Earth, orbit calculation software.
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Views of the Solar System: Comets (Popularity: )
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm
Basic features, data, discoveries, images and sections with specific information on selected comets.
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FM Radio Detection of Meteors (Popularity: )
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2n9fe/meteor/meteor.htm
Gives details of the construction and operation of an amateur observatory for radio meteor studies. The 1998 Leonid and Geminid meteor showers were observed using the forward scatter of the ...
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Meteors (Popularity: )
http://www.meteors.com/
Information on meteors and their observation. Includes online purchasing of stone chondrite and iron meteorites.
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