Directory of Near Earth Objects Resources

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Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets that come relatively close to earth. They are of special interest because of the collision hazard they pose to Earth. Meteors, while certainly close to Earth, are generally not considered NEOs.

Subcategories

• Impact Craters
• Near Misses
• Observatories

Resources in This Category

• 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.

• 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.

• AstroGuard

  http://www.astroguard.com/
  News and information about advance warning of asteroid or cometary impacts.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Tricky Science of Predicting Asteroid Collisions

  http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p03s01-stss.html
  Christian Science Monitor article examining asteroid collision science.

• 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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