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» Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid
   Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.
   http://www.aerospaceguide.net/nearearthasteroids.html

» Asteroids Comets Meteors (ACM)
   A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. Dates and links of past meetings.
   http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/acm_eng.html

» Asteroids and Comets
   Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
   http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html

» Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites: Their Intimate Relation with Life on Earth
   A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
   http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/6/96.06.03.x.html

» Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids
   Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.
   http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_hottopic&id=8

» BBC NEWS: Astronomers Discover 'New Planet'
   A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3511678.stm

» 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.
   http://smallbodies.ru

» Chiron Information and Documentation
   A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.
   http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/www.astro/chihp.htm

» Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software
   A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.
   http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/

» Comets and Asteroids News
   Latest news and information about comets and asteroids proved by Remanzacco Observatory, Italy.
   http://remanzacco.blogspot.com

» Committee on Small Body Nomenclature
   Group responsible for the naming of asteroids and comets. Description of the naming process, guidelines for submitting name proposals.
   http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/csbn/

» Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks
   Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
   http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/neo/

» Meteorites and Asteroids
   Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.
   http://www.williams.edu/astronomy/jay/chapter20_etu6.html

» Minor Planet Center
   International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
   http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

» NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets
   Selected NASA images.
   http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Other

» NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid
   Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spacewatch/

» 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.
   http://www.nineplanets.org/sedna.html

» Orbits
   Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
   http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/

» 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.
   http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/

» Small Bodies
   Link collection covering the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, near Earth objects, and impacts.
   http://www.snark.org/sb.htm

» Startdate Online: Leftovers
   Fact sheets on asteroids and comets, index to radio broadcasts on related topics. From the McDonald Observatory.
   http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/leftovers.html

» The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System
   Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.
   http://www.nineplanets.org/smallbodies.html

» The Small Bodies
   Provides detailed information on asteroids, comets and meteoroids.
   http://history.nasa.gov/SP-345/ch4.htm

» USGS Astrogeology: Other Objects
   Official names of features on asteroids as approved by the International Astronomical Union. Data and images for selected asteroids and comets.
   http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/SolarSystem/OtherObjects/

» Welcome to the Planets: Small Bodies
   Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.
   http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/choices/smallbod1.htm