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  NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Other
Selected NASA images.
  Minor Planet Center http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html
International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
  http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/ http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/
Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
  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.
  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.
  Asteroids and Comets http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html
Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
  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/templates/flash/neo/neo.htm
Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
  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.
  USGS Astrogeology: Other Objects 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.
  Chiron Information and Documentation http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/www.astro/chihp.htm
A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.
  NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spacewatch/
Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
  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.
  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.
  Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid http://www.aerospaceguide.net/nearearthasteroids.html
Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.
  Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/
A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System http://www.nineplanets.org/smallbodies.html
Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.
  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.
  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.
  Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=&topic=8
Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.

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