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Asteroids and Comets
Basic information about near Earth asteroids and the hazard they pose to Earth. Asteroid origins, potentially hazardous asteroids, Earth crossing asteroids, Torino impact scale.
http://www.geocities.com/joerg52/ASTEROIDS_and_COMETS.html
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JPL Near-Earth Object Program
NASA NEO Program Office at JPL. Overview, press releases, FAQ, 3D orbit viewer. Research information and statistics, including risk calculations for possible collisions with Earth.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Tricky Science of Predicting Asteroid Collisions
Christian Science Monitor article examining asteroid collision science.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p03s01-stss.html
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Arcetri Near Earth Object Precovery Program (ANEOPP)
A search for NEO images in existing photographic plate archives. Archives used, procedures, personnel involved, sample images.
http://www.arcetri.astro.it/science/aneopp/
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DLR-Archenhold Near Earth Objects Precovery Survey (DANEOPS)
A project to search photographic plate archives for images of known NEOs. Procedures used, team members, images and measurements of successful precoveries.
http://earn.dlr.de/daneops/
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Understanding the Distribution of Near Earth Objects.
Technical paper describing sources and orbital evolution of near Earth objects, and implications for NEO search efforts.
http://www.obs-nice.fr/morby/ESA/esa.html
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Asteroid 1937 UB Hermes
Efforts on 1937 UB "Hermes", a long-lost Apollo asteroid, rediscovered in 2003, now numbered (69230) Hermes.
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~s24/hermes.htm
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FMO Project
A public program offered by the University of Arizona's Spacewatch Project. Volunteers review images to help find NEOs that the computers miss.
http://fmo.lpl.arizona.edu/FMO_home/index.cfm
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Wikipedia: Near-Earth object
Encyclopedia article covers collision danger, spacecraft access, efforts to catalog NEOs, classifications, impact hazard scales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object
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Dynamics of Small Bodies
Offers essays by a university teacher on near Earth object with unusual orbits, such as 3753 Cruithne, 2002 AA29, hypothetical Earth trojans and quasi-satellites.
http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/
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