comets and meteors

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• - A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna.
  
• - Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.
  
• - Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.
  
• - Data concerning asteroids and comets, in a standard format for use primarily by astronomical observers and mission planners, as well as educators and students.
  
• - Introduction paper on asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects.
  
• - Directory grouped by Asteroids, Asteroid Belt, Comets, Kuiper Belt, Meteors.
  
• - Link collection covering the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, near Earth objects, and impacts.
  
• - Instructional materials from NASA on Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors.
  
• - Selected NASA images.
  
• - A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.
  
• - Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
  
• - Research in fireballs, meteorite falls, and near Earth objects.
  
• - Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
  
• - Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
  
• - Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.
  
• - Catalog of names associated with small body impacts. Meteors, meteorites, craters, impact structures, and tektites, both on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
  
• - Extensive FAQ.
  
• - Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.
  
• - Official names of features on asteroids as approved by the International Astronomical Union. Data and images for selected asteroids and comets.
  
• - A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. Dates and links of past meetings.
  
• - Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
  
• - Includes news, information, professional and amateur observations as well as historical research. Compiled by Gary W. Kronk.
  
• - A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.
  
• - Information on meteors and their observation. Includes online purchasing of stone chondrite and iron meteorites.
  
• - Group responsible for the naming of asteroids and comets. Description of the naming process, guidelines for submitting name proposals.
  
• - Forum for discussion of asteroids and comets.
  
• - Physics of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Application with Newton's and Kepler's Laws, kinetic and potential energy.
  
• - A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
  
• - Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.
  
• - International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
  
• - General information on the object officially known as 2003 VB12. This object is the most distant body known that orbits our Sun.
  
• - Organization that collects and analyzes meteor data. Articles, images, data, software, links.
  
• - Fact sheets on asteroids and comets, index to radio broadcasts on related topics. From the McDonald Observatory.