Web Directory

» Arcetri Near Earth Object Precovery Program (ANEOPP)
   A search for NEO images in existing photographic plate archives. Archives used, procedures, personnel involved, sample images.
   http://www.arcetri.astro.it/science/aneopp/

» Asteroid 1937 UB Hermes
   Efforts on 1937 UB "Hermes", a long-lost Apollo asteroid, rediscovered in 2003, now numbered (69230) Hermes.
   http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~s24/hermes.htm

» AstroGuard
   News and information about advance warning of asteroid or cometary impacts.
   http://www.astroguard.com/

» DLR-Archenhold Near Earth Objects Precovery Survey (DANEOPS)
   A project to search photographic plate archives for images of known NEOs. Procedures used, team members, images and measurements of successful precoveries.
   http://earn.dlr.de/daneops/

» Dynamics of Small Bodies
   Offers essays by a university teacher on near Earth object with unusual orbits, such as 3753 Cruithne, 2002 AA29, hypothetical Earth trojans and quasi-satellites.
   http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/

» Earth Satellites for Asteroid Hunters
   Data and software useful for identifying artificial satellites which might be mistaken for unknown near-Earth asteroids.
   http://users.adam.com.au/dberesford/neosat.html

» FMO Project
   A public program offered by the University of Arizona's Spacewatch Project. Volunteers review images to help find NEOs that the computers miss.
   http://fmo.lpl.arizona.edu/FMO_home/index.cfm

» IAU / Near Earth Objects
   Summary of research on near Earth objects, activities of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Near Earth Objects (WGNEO).
   http://www.iau.org/public_press/themes/neo/

» JPL Near-Earth Object Program
   NASA NEO Program Office at JPL. Overview, press releases, FAQ, 3D orbit viewer. Research information and statistics, including risk calculations for possible collisions with Earth.
   http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

» National Space Centre: Near Earth Objects
   Virtual exhibition and online activities on the nature of NEOs and the hazard they pose, what efforts are being made to detect NEOs and avert collisions.
   http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/Page.aspx/6/NEAR_EARTH_OBJECTS/

» NeoDys, Near Earth Objects - Dynamic Site
   Searchable database of near Earth asteroids, risk calculations for possible collisions with Earth, orbit calculation software.
   http://newton.dm.unipi.it/neodys/

» Ondrejov NEO Photometric Program
   Activities at Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic, for photometry and astrometry of NEOs. Project news, binary near Earth asteroids, people involved, lists of light curve parameters.
   http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo_old.htm

» Tricky Science of Predicting Asteroid Collisions
   Christian Science Monitor article examining asteroid collision science.
   http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p03s01-stss.html

» Understanding the Distribution of Near Earth Objects.
   Technical paper describing sources and orbital evolution of near Earth objects, and implications for NEO search efforts.
   http://www.obs-nice.fr/morby/ESA/esa.html

» Wikipedia: Near-Earth object
   Encyclopedia article covers collision danger, spacecraft access, efforts to catalog NEOs, classifications, impact hazard scales.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object