Comets, Culture, & Currency - direct social and physical impact of comet debris during the
holocene and long term impact of rationalizing such phenomena.
Cosmic Collisions - what would happen to us if a large asteroid smashed into the
Earth? From the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Good page
for older kids
CTH 3D Comet Impact Simulations - what would happen if a comet the size of the largest fragment
of Comet Shoemaker-Levy that crashed into Jupiter in 1994 were
to strike the earth? Find out here. Interesting gif and animation
depictions.
Deadly Impact - interactive site by National Geographic dealing with four known
or suspected asteroid impacts on the Earth.
Earth-Crossing Asteroids - Images and animations of Earth-crossing asteroids, why do we
study them, impact hazards; Scott Hudsen's NASA-sponsored page.
Leonid '98 Meteor Outburst Mission - a Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (MAC) to view the storms
from an airborne platform; news, links, photo gallery, comet news,
Leonid News, impact hazard to spacecraft, history, and more.
Meteorite Central - site offers meteorite information, educational articles, a
mailing list, chat room, and meteorites for sale, more of a lighthearted
look at meteors.
Meteors - Norwegian Astronomical Society - how to observe meteors, where to report them, picture files,
upcoming meteor events. Site is in either English or Norwegian
Minor Planet Center - The NEO Page lists links for NEO Confirmations, Ephemerides
and orbital elements for currently observable NEOs, dates of last
observation of NEOs that have not been seen recently, complete
list of dates of last observation for unusual objects, lists of
known NEOs (including listing of the larger potentially dangerous
objects), NEO orbit diagrams, close approaches to the earth and
more
Planetary Society for NEO News - research and discovery, science behind the latest media releases,
films, and events about comets and asteroids.
NEAT Project - Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking - project to autonomously search for near-Earth and Earth crossing
asteroids using a computer controlled telescope, a CCD camera
and some NEAT software. Information on New Discoveries, Two New
Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Asteroids, Bogus Images and catalog
of asteroids
ODAS - European NEO research on search for asteroids and comets, with
special emphasis on NEO's
Scientific American: Double Whammy - an asteroid striking land would be catastrophic, but the damage
might be far worse if it crashed into the sea.
Scientific American: Ground Zero - Scientific American senior writer W. Wayt Gibbs joins the expedition
searching frozen Greenland for the remains of a meteor
Small Comets - A series of spectacular images produced by cameras on NASA's
Polar spacecraft have confirmed that Earth is being pelted by
thousands of small comets each day.
TASS (The Amateur Sky Survey) hopes to construct low-cost drift-scan cameras (equipped with
CCDs) which could be operated by amateurs around the world to
monitor bright objects (including NEOs) across a large section
of the sky. Its home page is very rich and includes (among many
other documents): including latest status report, detailed information
about hardware and software design, with sample images, pictures
of TASS hardware, collection of Technical Notes, digest of data
available through FTP
Tycho Brahe Expedition 1998 - the Expedition is searching for the giant meteorite that hit
Greenland on December 9, 1997. Images and text are transmitted
via satellite daily and posted to this site (also in Danish).
UESAC (the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets) is a search for previously undetected comets in the vicinity
of Jupiter; it is described in two papers (paper 1 and paper 2,
from the home page of Gonzalo Tancredi)
Understanding the Leonid Meteor Storms - understanding these events is important because of the effect
they have on the estimated 500 satellites in orbit.
WWW Astrolinks - links for Monthly Sky Event Calendars, Amateur Astronomy Groups
with Informative Web Sites, Magazines, Periodicals, and Newsletters,
Astronomy and Science News, Observatories (w/important comet and
meteor work), Organizations and more