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Table of contents

Last updated 2010 February 2

Links

1.0 Introduction

Listed here are websites referenced elsewhere on this site plus some others which may be of interest. Mostly the links will take you to the site’s homepage but other pages on those sites specifically related to the subject of asteroids are included.

2.0 Organisations of amateur and professional astronomers

ï The Astronomer

ï The Planetary Society

ï British Astronomical Association

ï Asteroid and Remote Planets Section

ï Royal Astronomical Society

ï International Astronomical Union

ï Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand

ï Italian organisation of minor planet observers

ï Follow-up Astrometric Program

ï Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO)

ï Minor Planets Section

ï Minor Planet Bulletin

ï Minor Planet Research Inc

ï Minor Planet Mailing List

ï The Astronomical League

ï Asteroid Club

ï Asteroid Club Observing Guide

3.0 Space Agencies

ï European Space Agency (ESA)

ï Japanese Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (JAXA)

ï National AeroSpace Agency (NASA)

ï Report to Congress. NEO Survey and Deflection – Analysis of alternatives

ï Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

ï Near Earth Object Program

ï Asteroid Watch

ï Asteroid Radar Research

ï Solar System Dynamics

ï What’s Observable

ï Horizons (web interface)

ï Planetary Data Systems

ï Small Bodies Node

ï NASA Science

ï Astrophysics Data System

ï Lunar and Planetary Science

4.0 Publications

ï Sky And Telescope

ï Astronomy Now

ï Distant EKO’s. The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter

5.0 Software

ï Occult Watcher

ï Lymm Photometry Software

ï Astrometrica

ï Remote Administrator (Radmin)

ï Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software (CODES)

ï Willman Bell

ï Astronomical Image Processing (AIP4WIN)

ï The Horology Source

ï Astroplanner

ï Minor Planet Observer

ï Omega lab - Advanced Telescope Control

ï Computer Aided Astrometry

ï Scientific/Engineering

ï Tac32 Software

6.0 Hardware

ï Starlight Xpress

ï Galleon Systems

ï Oregon Scientific

ï National Physical Laboratory

ï Time and Frequency (The MSF Signal)

ï Meinberg (time keeping devices)

7.0 Search Programs and Observatories

ï Camarillo Observatory

ï Pan-Starrs (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System)

ï Sloan Digital Sky Survey

ï Crni Vrh Observatory

ï Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

ï Near Earth Objects

ï Catalina Sky Survey

ï Campocatino Austral Observatory

ï Klet Observatory

ï Teide Observatory

ï Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

ï Lowell Observatory

ï Research Programs

ï Asteroid Services

ï Hierarchical Observation Protocol (HOP)

ï Critical List of Asteroids

ï Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search (LONEOS)

ï Siding Spring Survey

ï Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR)

ï JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)

ï United Sates Naval Observatory (USNO)

ï Astrometry Department

ï Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

ï Digitised Sky Survey (DSS)

ï UAO – DLR Asteroid Survey (UDAS)

ï Sunflower Observatory

ï Desert Moon Observatory

ï Bagnall Beach Observatory

ï Goodricke-Pigott Observatory

ï Shed of Science

ï Observatorio Nazaret

ï Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory

ï Arecibo Observatory

ï Planetary Radar at Arecibo Observatory

ï A comparative study of current and planned NEO surveys

ï Japanese Spaceguard Centre

ï Bisei Spaceguard Centre

ï Kamisaibara Spaceguard Centre

8.0 Data and Information Centres

8.1 Asteroids in general

ï Minor Planet Centre (MPC)

ï NEO Confirmation Page

ï MPC NEA Planning Aid

ï Minor Planet and Comet Ephemeris Service

ï On-line Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

ï MPC Guide to Minor Body Astrometry

ï Astrometry ‘how-to’

ï MPC Submission Information

ï Asteroids Dynamics (AstDys)

ï Project Pluto

ï Minor Planet Groups

ï Asteroid and Comet Groups

ï Description of the System of Asteroids

ï Asteroid masses

ï Asteroid/Comet Connection

ï Updated Ephemerides of Minor Planets

ï The Space Frontier Foundation

8.2 Binary Asteroids

ï Asteroids with satellites

ï List of asteroid moons

ï Minor planet satellite database

ï Liste des asteroids binaires

ï Orbits of binary asteroids with adaptive optics

ï Urey Prize Lecture: Binary Minor Planets

8.3 Catalogues

ï USNO Image and Catalogue Archive Server

ï Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue 14

8.4 Lightcurves

ï Geneva Observatory - Asteroid and Comet rotation curves

ï Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL)

ï Ondrejov Asteroid Photometry Project

ï The Astronomical Society of Las Cruces

ï Minor Planet Lightcurve Data collected by Frederick Pilcher

ï Standard Asteroid Photometric Catalogue (temporarily closed)

ï Koronis Family Asteroids Rotation Lightcurve Observing Program

ï Photometry of Asteroids at The Belgrade Astronomical Observatory

8.5 Phase curves and absolute magnitude

ï Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO)

ï Minor Planets Section

ï AUDE (Electronic Detectors Users Association)

ï Magnitude Alert Project

8.6 Near Earth Asteroids/Objects

ï Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site (NeoDys) - Italy

ï Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site (NeoDys) - Spain

ï European Asteroid Research Node

ï Spaceguard Foundation

ï Spaceguard Central Node

ï Spaceguard system

ï NEO Coord System

ï Priority List

ï Spaceguard UK

ï The Planetary Society Near Earth Objects Page

8.7 Occultations

ï European Asteroid Occultation Network (EAON)

ï Steve Preston’s Occultation Updates

ï Euraster – European Asteroidal Occultations

ï Asteroidal Occultation Reports Database

ï International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA)

ï RASNZ Occultation Section

ï Breit Ideas Observatory

ï Drift-scan timing of asteroid occultations – John Broughton

ï French Astronomical Society – Occultations, Eclipses and Transits

8.8 Impacts

ï Earth Impact Database

ï Lunar and Planetary Institute

ï Terrestrial Impact Craters, Second Edition

ï Holocene Impact Working Group

ï Impact calculator

ï Impact Field Studies Group

ï University of Arizona

ï Department of Planetary Sciences, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

ï Earth Impact Effects Program

ï NASA Ames Research Center, Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards

ï Torino Impact Scale

ï Armagh Observatory

ï Near Earth Object Impact Hazard

ï NASA JPL Near Earth Object Program

ï Current Impact Risks

9.0 Professional and Amateur astronomers

ï John Sussenbach

ï Martin Mobberley

ï Mike Kretlow

ï David Higgins

ï John Fletcher

ï Dr Alan Fitzimmons

ï David C Jewitt

ï Mikko Kaasalainen

ï Peter Birtwhistle

ï Dr Phil Bland

ï James McGaha

ï Duncan Miller

ï William Bottke

ï NEO discovery statistics 2002

ï NEO discovery statistics 2003

ï NEO discovery statistics 2004

ï NEO discovery statistics 2005

ï NEO discovery statistics 2006

ï NEO discovery statistics 2007

10.0 Academic institutions

ï Stephen F. Austin State University

ï Dept of Physics and Astronomy

ï Dan’s Home Page

ï Minor Planet Research

ï University of Ljubljani astronomical observatory

ï Calculation of residuals of asteroid positions

ï Institute of Physics, Montevideo, Uruguay

ï Atlas of Mean Motion Resonances

ï California Institute of Technology

ï Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences

ï Michael E Brown

ï University of Pisa, Celestial Mechanics Group

ï Uppsala Astronomical Observatory

ï Planetary System Group

11.0 Robotic telescopes

ï Global Rent-A-Scope

ï Faulkes Telescope Project

ï Bradford Robotic Telescope

ï Sierra Stars Observatory Network

ï San Pedro de Atacama Celestial Explorations

ï Telescope Time Rental

12.0 Other sites of interest

ï B612 Foundation

ï Realtime world calendar

ï NASA/JPL Space Calendar

ï Small Body Distance Triangulation Calculator

ï Portal to the universe

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