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• Asteroid/Comet Connection - A digest of news related to asteroids, comets, and meteors. Monitors changes in impact risk calculations. Includes links to original sources of information.
• Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid - Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.
• Asteroids Comets Meteors (ACM) - A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. Dates and links of past meetings.
• Asteroids and Comets - Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
• Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites: Their Intimate Relation with Life on Earth - A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
• Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids - Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.
• Catalogue of the Solar System: Small Bodies Orbital Evolution - Provides information about asteroids of the Aten, Apollo and Amor groups and periodic comets. In English and Russian.
• Chiron Information and Documentation - A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.
• Comets and Asteroids News - Latest news and information about comets and asteroids proved by Remanzacco Observatory, Italy.
• Committee on Small Body Nomenclature - 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 - Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
• Meteorites and Asteroids - Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.
• Minor Planet Center - International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
• NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets - Selected NASA images.
• NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid - Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
• Nine Planets: Sedna - General information on the object officially known as 2003 VB12. This object is the most distant body known that orbits our Sun.
• Orbits - Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
• Planetary Data System: Small Bodies Node - 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 - Link collection covering the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, near Earth objects, and impacts.
• Startdate Online: Leftovers - 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 - Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.
• The Small Bodies - Provides detailed information on asteroids, comets and meteoroids.
• Welcome to the Planets: Small Bodies - Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.
• BBC NEWS: Astronomers Discover 'New Planet' - A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna. (March 15, 2004)

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