Directory of Small Bodies Resources

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Asteroids, comets, and meteors are sometimes called "small bodies" of the Solar System. They are chunks of ice, rock, or metal that are small, at least compared to planets. They are related in several ways, so sites with information about all three are common.

Subcategories

• Asteroids
• Comets
• Meteors
• Near Earth Objects
• Observatories
• Space Missions

Resources in This Category

• Asteroid/Comet Connection

  http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/news.htm
  A digest of news related to asteroids, comets, and meteors. Monitors changes in impact risk calculations. Includes links to original sources of information.

• Asteroids and Comets

  http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html
  Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.

• 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.

• Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites: Their Intimate Relation with Life on Earth

  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/6/96.06.03.x.html
  A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Comets and Asteroids News

  http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/
  Latest news and information about comets and asteroids proved by Remanzacco Observatory, Italy.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Minor Planet Center

  http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/mpc.html
  International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.

• NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets

  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Other
  Selected NASA images.

• 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.

• NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spacewatch/
  Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.

• Orbits

  http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/
  Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System

  http://www.nineplanets.org/smallbodies.html
  Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.

• The Small Bodies

  http://history.nasa.gov/SP-345/ch4.htm
  Provides detailed information on asteroids, comets and meteoroids.

• 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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