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	NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Other Selected NASA images.
	Minor Planet Center - http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
	http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/ - http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/ Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
	Welcome to the Planets: Small Bodies - http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/choices/smallbod1.htm Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.
	Planetary Data System: Small Bodies Node - http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/ Data concerning asteroids and comets, in a standard format for use primarily by astronomical observers and mission planners, as well as educators and students.

	Asteroids and Comets - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
	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.
	Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/templates/flash/neo/neo.htm Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
	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.
	Asteroid/Comet Connection - http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/news.htm A digest of news related to asteroids, comets, and meteors. Monitors changes in impact risk calculations. Includes links to original sources of information.

	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.
	NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spacewatch/ Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
	Asteroids Comets Meteors (ACM) - http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/acm_eng.html A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. Dates and links of past meetings.
	BBC NEWS: Astronomers Discover 'New Planet' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3511678.stm A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna.
	Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid - http://www.aerospaceguide.net/nearearthasteroids.html Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.

	Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software - http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/ A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.
	The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System - http://www.nineplanets.org/smallbodies.html Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.
	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.
	Startdate Online: Leftovers - http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/leftovers.html Fact sheets on asteroids and comets, index to radio broadcasts on related topics. From the McDonald Observatory.
	The Physics of: Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids - http://ca.geocities.com/spacephysicsisu/ Physics of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Application with Newton's and Kepler's Laws, kinetic and potential energy.

	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.
	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.
	Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites: Their Intimate Relation with Life on Earth - http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/6/96.06.03.x.html A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
	Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids - http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=&topic=8 Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.

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