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Description, data on selected asteroids, images.
Offers updated alphabetical list of minor planet names.
Tools to help observers select targets and plan observations. Also, orbital elements, reference star catalog data and software, link to Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search (LONEOS).
Background information, details on selected asteroids, image gallery.
Listing and description of dynamical groups and physical families of asteroids.
Covers history, asteroid composition, Earth collisions.
Dynamical groups of asteroids, mathematical formulas, the Tunguska event.
Airborne observations, Vulcanoids, various asteroid collision effects.
Data sets and references to scientific literature describing results.
Archive of articles posted at the Planetary Science Research Discoveries site at the University of Hawaii.
Collisions, tidal disruption, dynamics, planetary impacts, crater chains and doublet craters.
Lists of known or suspected asteroids with satellites. Also history, graphs, links.
Basic description, overview of asteroid science.
Encyclopedia article covers history, groups of asteroids, spectral types. Tables of largest and notable asteroids.
Overview of current scientific knowledge of asteroids.
Photometry and shape modeling program, magnitude alert project, finder charts, visual observing of minor planets.
Information on the study of these objects orbiting the sun.
Provides a table of information on selected asteroids.