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Asteroids and Comets - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html
Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System - http://www.nineplanets.org/smallbodies.html
Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links. |
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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. |
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Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software - http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/
A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets. |
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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. |