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Asteroids are smaller than planets, bigger than meteoroids, and they don't have the tail or fuzzy appearance that a comet does. "Minor planet" is a technical term for asteroid.

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Orrery: Asteroids Basic information about asteroids, history of asteroid discovery, Bode's Law. www.harmsy.freeuk.com/asteroids.html

Windows to the Universe: Asteroids Description, data on selected asteroids, images. www.windows.ucar.edu/../../our_solar_system/asteroids.html

Asteroid Observing Services from Lowell Observatory 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). asteroid.lowell.edu

AstDys, Asteroids - Dynamic Site Indexed, searchable database of asteroid data. hamilton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/astdys/astibo

Asteroid Radar Research NASA JPL asteroid research using radar. Introduction, scientific activity, asteroid images. echo.jpl.nasa.gov

Views of the Solar System: Asteroid Introduction Background information, details on selected asteroids, image gallery. www.solarviews.com/eng/asteroid.htm

Minor Planet Groups and Families Listing and description of dynamical groups and physical families of asteroids. www.projectpluto.com/mp_group.htm

UAI Minor Planets Section Italian organization of minor planet observers. Histograms and scatter plots of asteroid orbital elements. Ephemeridies, opposition dates, conjunctions with Messier objects, shareware applications. www.uai.it/sez_ast/english

Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers: Minor Planets Section Photometry and shape modeling program, magnitude alert project, finder charts, visual observing of minor planets. www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/minplan.html

Minor Planet Observer Lightcurve collaboration, physical studies, software, Palmer Divide Observatory. www.minorplanetobserver.com

Astronomy Related Rrograms By Jure Skvare. Downloads and web based services useful to asteroid observers. Fitsblink, asteroid server, fitsjd, fits2pg, fitsfrompg, asteroid identifier, residual calculator. www-rcp.ijs.si/~jure/software/index.html

Introduction to Asteroids Covers history, asteroid composition, Earth collisions. www.mira.org/fts0/planets/098/text/txt001z.htm

Asteroids Common questions. whyfiles.org/074asteroid

Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy: Asteroids Dynamical groups of asteroids, mathematical formulas, the Tunguska event. scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/topics/Asteroids.html

News on Hilda Asteroids A review of current knowledge of this dynamical group. Overview, low eccentricity Hildas, the Schubart family, numbered Hildas of the Palomar-Leiden survey. www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~s24/hilda.htm

Asteroids with Canadian Connections A list of asteroids whose names are known to have a Canadian connection, usually because they are named after a Canadian. www.rasc.ca/faq/asteroids/home.htm

Asteroids and Remote Planets Section Section of the British Astronomical Association. Asteroid finder charts, articles on observing techniques. yan.open.ac.uk/~ajh47/arps.htm

Small World Atlas 2000 Cartography of irregularly shaped asteroids and satellites. Maps, images, related papers. www.ssc.uwo.ca/geography/spacemap

Asteroid Models Research in determining asteroid shapes through photometric data and multiple data sources. Reference documents, introduction, links. www.astro.helsinki.fi/~kaselain/asteroids.html

Asteroids From the Uppsala Planetary System Group. Overview, research projects, discoveries. www.astro.uu.se/planet/asteroid

Dan Durda's Research Interests Airborne observations, Vulcanoids, various asteroid collision effects. www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/research.html

Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey II Data sets and references to scientific literature describing results. smass.mit.edu

Asteroid Articles Archive of articles posted at the Planetary Science Research Discoveries site at the University of Hawaii. www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Archive/Archive-Asteroids.html

Bill Bottke's Asteroid Research Collisions, tidal disruption, dynamics, planetary impacts, crater chains and doublet craters. www.boulder.swri.edu/~bottke

List of Double Minor Planets Known or suspected asteroids with satellites. hea.iki.rssi.ru/~denis/doublemp.html

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