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Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth (Popularity:  )
(Score: 16.24)
http://space.about.com/library/weekly/aa072602a.htm
Short article examining how much danger Asteroid 2002 NT7 poses to the Earth.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Tricky Science of Predicting Asteroid Collisions (Popularity: )
(Score: 15.68)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p03s01-stss.html
Christian Science Monitor article examining asteroid collision science.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Dan Durda's Research Interests (Popularity: )
(Score: 13.96)
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/research.html
Airborne observations, Vulcanoids, various asteroid collision effects.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.77)
http://www.spacedev.com/newsite/templates/subpage3.php?pid=191&subNav=11&subSel=3
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.
Category: Science\Technology\Space\Missions
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European Asteroid Research Node (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.54)
http://earn.dlr.de/
Association of European research groups active in asteroid research. Links to member sites and resources useful for asteroid research.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Encore Flight Mulled for Amazing Asteroid Lander (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.77)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/02/14/near.landing.01/
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 ...
Category: Science\Technology\Space\Missions
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Impacts Into Asteroids (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.69)
http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~asphaug/
Theoretical studies of impacts of one asteroid into another, and tsunami effects of an asteroid impact on Earth.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Asteroid Groups (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.53)
http://sajri.astronomy.cz/asteroidgroups/groups.htm
Graphs and animations showing major asteroid groups and families.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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ANTS Asteroid Survey (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.26)
http://ants.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Study on Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm, a novel concept to survey the asteroid belt using an autonomously operating spacecraft swarm.
Category: Science\Technology\Space\Missions
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Asteroid 1937 UB Hermes (Popularity: )
(Score: 8.57)
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.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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NSSDC: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.34)
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html
General information, reports and pictures of the event taken from many observatories.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Jupiter
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Selections from Worlds in Collision (1950) (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.34)
http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/JNHDA/wic.htm
Sixty short extracts which give an overview of Velikovsky's book.
Category: Science\Anomalies and Alternative Science\Geology, Alternative\Velikovsky, Immanuel
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Lusch’s Midair Collision Investigations (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.27)
http://tomlusch.com/tomlusch/index.html
Air Traffic Controller's analysis of radar data processing procedures.
Category: Science\Technology\Aerospace\Aeronautics
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Venus in the Corner Pocket (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.27)
http://www.unmuseum.org/velikov.htm
Looks at the theory put forth in his 1950s text Worlds in Collision, and geologists' and physicists' reactions to it.
Category: Science\Anomalies and Alternative Science\Geology, Alternative\Velikovsky, Immanuel
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JPL: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.20)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
Reports, news, links and images taken from spacecraft and ground based observations.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Jupiter
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Wikipedia: Near-Earth object (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.92)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object
Encyclopedia article covers collision danger, spacecraft access, efforts to catalog NEOs, classifications, impact hazard scales.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Velikovsky, Immanuel (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.92)
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovsky/index.htm
Proposed that many myths and traditions of ancient peoples and cultures are based on actual events, as described in his 1950's books Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheaval.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Archaeology\Alternative
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.85)
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
Extensive coverage of the event July 1994. Includes observations, reports, 1444 images, news releases and links.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Jupiter
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.85)
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
Extensive coverage of the event July 1994. Includes observations, reports, 1444 images, news releases and links.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Solar System\Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Asteroid Discovery Circumstances (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.82)
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/dc_home.html
For each minor planet: Where and when found, and by whom.
Category: Science\Astronomy\History\Solar System
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