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Asteroids

1. Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
2. Asteroid Research
3. Asteroids and Comets
4. European Asteroid Research Node
5. IAU: Minor Planet Center
6. Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
7. Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
8. Near Earth Object Program

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Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards

Information about the possibility and effects of a comet or asteroid hitting the Earth. Includes news, press releases, a bibliography, images and list of future close passages of near Earth objects.
     Author: NASA Ames Space Science Division
     Subjects: asteroids, comets
     DeweyClass: 523.44
     Resource type: documents, images

Asteroid Research

Information about asteroids. Includes crater chains on the Earth and Moon, binary asteroids and the formation of double craters, and images of large elliptical craters.
     Author: Botke, Bill
     Subjects: asteroids
     DeweyClass: 523.44
     Resource type: documents, images

Asteroids and Comets

A collection of images of asteroids and comets. Includes Comet Hale-Bopp, images from the Hubble Telescope and Asteroid 243 Ida with a moon taken by the Galileo spacecraft.
     Author: Hovila, Ari
     Subjects: asteroids, comets
     DeweyClass: 523.44
     Resource type: images

European Asteroid Research Node

Information about European research into asteroids. Includes a database of physical properties of near earth objects.
     Author: EARN
     Subjects: asteroids
     DeweyClass: 523.44
     Resource type: documents

IAU: Minor Planet Center

Responsible for the designation of minor bodies in the solar system: minor planets; comets (in conjunction with CBAT); and natural satellites (also in conjunction with CBAT). It is also responsible for the efficient collection, (computation,) checking and dissemination of astrometric observations and orbits for minor planets and comets, via the Minor Planet Circulars (issued generally on a monthly basis), the Minor Planet Circulars Orbit Supplement (MPO) (issued three to twelve times per year), the Minor Planet Circulars Supplement (MPS) (issued three or four times a month) and the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (issued as necessary, generally at least once per day).
     Author: International Astronomical Union
     Subjects: asteroids, comets
     DeweyClass: 523.44
     Resource type: documents, reference data

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous

Information about the mission to orbit an asteroid. Includes news, education, science teams, science data centre, mission design, mission operations, star charts and near-Earth objects.
     Author: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
     Subjects: asteroids
     DeweyClass: 523.44
     Resource type: documents, images

Near Earth Asteroid Tracking

Images and data of the tracking of near Earth asteroids, including Asteroid 1997 XF11.
     Author: Pravdo, S., NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
     Subjects: asteroids
     DeweyClass: 523.44
     Resource type: images, reference data

Near Earth Object Program

Providing tracking data for potentially hazardous asteroids and their approaches towards Earth, detailed information of recent spacecraft missions and NEO discoveries, and images of the objects themselves.
     Author: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
     Subjects: asteroids
     DeweyClass: 523.44
     Resource type: images, reference data