Asteroids, comets, and meteors are sometimes called "small bodies" of the Solar System. They are chunks of ice, rock, or metal that are small, at least compared to planets. They are related in several ways, so sites with information about all three are common.
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- NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
- Welcome to the Planets: Small Bodies Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.
- Orbits Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
- Planetary Data System: Small Bodies Node Data concerning asteroids and comets, in a standard format for use primarily by astronomical observers and mission planners, as well as educators and students.
- NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets Selected NASA images.
- Asteroids and Comets Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
- Asteroid/Comet Connection A digest of news related to asteroids, comets, and meteors. Monitors changes in impact risk calculations. Includes links to original sources of information.
- Startdate Online: Leftovers Fact sheets on asteroids and comets, index to radio broadcasts on related topics. From the McDonald Observatory.
- Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites: Their Intimate Relation with Life on Earth A curriculum prepared by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
- Asteroids Comets Meteors (ACM) A meeting bringing together scientists studying small solar system bodies. Dates and links of past meetings.
- Committee on Small Body Nomenclature Group responsible for the naming of asteroids and comets. Description of the naming process, guidelines for submitting name proposals.
- Small Bodies Link collection covering the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, near Earth objects, and impacts.
- Meteorites and Asteroids Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.
- BBC NEWS: Astronomers Discover 'New Planet' A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna.
- The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.
- Nine Planets: Sedna General information on the object officially known as 2003 VB12. This object is the most distant body known that orbits our Sun.
- Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
- The Small Bodies Provides detailed information on asteroids, comets and meteoroids.
- Comets and Asteroids News Latest news and information about comets and asteroids proved by Remanzacco Observatory, Italy.
- Catalogue of the Solar System: Small Bodies Orbital Evolution Provides information about asteroids of the Aten, Apollo and Amor groups and periodic comets. In English and Russian.
- Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.
- Minor Planet Center International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.