JPL Near-Earth Object Program
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NASA NEO Program Office at JPL. Overview, press releases, FAQ, 3D orbit viewer. Research information & statistics, including risk calculations for possible collisions with Earth.
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NEO Information Centre
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Virtual exhibition & on line activities on the nature of NEOs & the hazard they pose, what efforts are being made to detect NEOs & avert collisions.
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Understanding the Distribution of Near Earth Objects.
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Technical paper describing sources & orbital evolution of near Earth objects, and implications for NEO search efforts.
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Arcetri Near Earth Object Precovery Program (ANEOPP)
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A search for NEO images in existing photographic plate archives. Archives used, procedures, personnel involved, sample images.
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Ondrejov NEO Photometric Program
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Activities at Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic, for photometry & astrometry of NEOs. Project news, binary near Earth asteroids, people involved, lists of light curve parameters.
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Tricky Science of Predicting Asteroid Collisions
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Christian Science Monitor article examining asteroid collision science. (April 5, 2002)
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Earth Satellites for Asteroid Hunters
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Data & software useful for identifying artificial satellites which might be mistaken for unknown near-Earth asteroids.
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Wikipedia: Near-Earth object
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Encyclopedia article covers collision danger, spacecraft access, efforts to catalog NEOs, classifications, impact hazard scales.
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DLR-Archenhold Near Earth Objects Precovery Survey (DANEOPS)
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A project to search photographic plate archives for images of known NEOs. Procedures used, team members, images & measurements of successful precoveries.
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Dynamics of Small Bodies
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Offers essays by a university teacher on near Earth object with unusual orbits, such as 3753 Cruithne, 2002 AA29, hypothetical Earth trojans & quasi-satellites.
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IAU / Near Earth Objects
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Summary of research on near Earth objects, activities of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Near Earth Objects (WGNEO).
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FMO Project
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A public program offered by the University of Arizona's Spacewatch Project. Volunteers review images to help find NEOs that the computers miss.
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Asteroid 1937 UB Hermes
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Efforts on 1937 UB 'Hermes', a long-lost Apollo asteroid, rediscovered in 2003, now numbered (69230) Hermes.
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Toutatis
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Ephmeris & data on 4179 Toutatis, including close approaches & animations.
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AstroGuard
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News & information about advance warning of asteroid or cometary impacts.
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Asteroids & Comets
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Basic information about near Earth asteroids & the hazard they pose to Earth. Asteroid origins, potentially hazardous asteroids, Earth crossing asteroids, Torino impact scale.
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NeoDys, Near Earth Objects - Dynamic Site
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Searchable database of near Earth asteroids, risk calculations for possible collisions with Earth, orbit calculation software.
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