Small Bodies

Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.

Selected NASA images.

Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.

Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.

Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.

Provides detailed information on asteroids, comets and meteoroids.

Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.

NASA JPL asteroid research using radar. Introduction, scientific activity, asteroid images.

Covers history, asteroid composition, Earth collisions.

Common questions.

Encyclopedia article covers history, groups of asteroids, spectral types. Tables of largest and notable asteroids.

Information on the study of these objects orbiting the sun.

Offers updated alphabetical list of minor planet names.

Catalogue of images, ordered by comet.

General information, data, pictures. Also features educator's guides to micrometeorites, impact craters and space debris.

A guide to when to look for meteors.

A public program offered by the University of Arizona's Spacewatch Project. Volunteers review images to help find NEOs that the computers miss.

Summary of research on near Earth objects, activities of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Near Earth Objects (WGNEO).

Asteroid and comet observation at Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia.

Privately owned and funded facility concentrating on follow-up observations of unusual minor planets.

Contains photos of several different comets.