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Small Body Ephemerides

• HORIZONS JPL Solar System Dynamics ephemeris generator
• The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database (Ted Bowell, Lowell Observatory)

Astronomical Information and Data Resources

• JPL Solar Systems Dynamics (SSD)
• IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
• IAU Minor Planet Center
• Crni Vrh Observatory Asteroid and Comet Observations
• Lowell Observatory Research Programs

Asteroids (Observing, Research,...)

• Gaia-Groundbased Observational Service for Asteroids (Gaia-GOSA)
• Lowell Observatory Asteroid Services
• Near-Earth Object Program at JPL offers an interactive orbit visualization tool as well as a link to an ephemeris generator.
• Asteroids Dynamic Site (AstDyS-2)
• Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site (NEODyS)
• Near-Earth Object Human Space Flight Accessible Targets Study (NHATS)
• VsuAstro (Solar System Dynamics, Encounter Detection and Observation Planning)
• Ondrejov NEO Photometric Program
• IAU MPC: Lightcurve Database
• European Asteroid Research Node (EARN), located at the Institute of Planetary Exploration in Berlin, Germany. This site was established to support communication and information exchange among observational and theoretical asteroid researchers.
• Asteroid Radar Research
• The European Near Earth Asteroids Research (EURONEAR)
• Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)

Comets (Observing, Research,...)

• Comet Chasing
• Cometography Page
• Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Observing
• The German comet group
• British Astronomical Association Comet Section

Man-made Satellites

• IAU MPC: The Distant Artificial Satellites Observation Page
• Heavens Above
• Space Track: The Source for Space Surveillance Data

Impact Hazards

• Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
• Spaceguard Foundation
• The Spacewatch Project

Meteors, Meteorites

• Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office

Imagery, Plots

• ESA's Planetary Science Archive
• International Planetary Data Alliance
• The Virtual Observatory Sky Body Tracker (SkyBoT) (allows users to seek and identify all the known solar system objects in a field of view)
• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey
• National Virtual Observatory (NVO)
• NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
• NSSDC Photo Gallery
• Regional Planetary Images Facility
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• SkyMorph
• USNO Image and Catalogue Archive Service
• The Palomar Digital Sky Survey (DPOSS) (unfunded at the moment)
• IAU MPC: Plot of the Inner Solar System
• IAU MPC: Plot of the Outer Solar System
• Hale-Bopp

Small Body (General Information)

• The Nine Planets Solar System Tour
• Views of the Solar System
• SSD: Solar System Bodies
• International Astronomical Union (IAU)
  • Naming Minor Planets
  • Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs): A Chronology of Milestones
• StarDate Online
• Royal Greenwich Observatory
• Sky and Telescope Homepage is a good source for information on recent and upcoming comets.

Small Body Missions

• NASA Missions (all)
• Discovery Program
• ESA's Solar and Planetary Missions
• JAXA's Planet Exploration Missions
• The Planetary Society: Missions to Asteroids and Comets

Blogs and mailing lists

• Comets &Neo news (blog for Remanzacco Observatory)
• Minor Planet Mailing List [mpml]

Journals and Papers

• The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
• arXiv Astrophysics: Earth and Planetary Astronomy, recent papers
• Meteoritics and Planetary Science
• Crni Vrh Observatory: CCD Photometry of Faint Comets (paper)

Related Books

• Festou M.C, Keller H.U., Weaver H.A. Comets II. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2004
• Bottke W.F., Cellino A., Paolicchi P., Binzel R.P. Asteroids III. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2002
• Johnson, T., McFadden, L.A., Weissman, P. Encyclopedia of the Solar System. Academic Press, August 1998.
• Chaisson, E., McMillian, S. Astronomy. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995.
• Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M., Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets. Pergamon Press, New York, 1990.
• Binzel, R.P., Gehrels, T., Matthews, M.S., Editors. Asteroids II. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1989.
• Brandt, J.C., Chapman, R.D. The Comet Book. Jones and Bartlett Publications, Inc., Boston, 1984.
• Wilkening L.L, Matthews M.S. Comets. The University of Arizona Press, 1982