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In General (see also the Solar System overview)
Meteors (Shooting Stars)
and Fireballs
- In General: International Meteor Organization website;
American Meteor Society website;
Gary Kronk's website;
NASA information page.
- Geminid Meteors: NASA information page.
- Leonid Meteors: Armagh Observatory page;
Astronomical Society of Australia page.
- Lyrid Meteors: Gary Kronk's page.
- Perseid Meteors: Sky & Telescope page;
Jupiter Scientific page.
- Photography: Tips
from spaceweather.
- Fireball Sightings: American meteor Society Fireball
Reporting form.
- Special Topics: NASA page on meteors on the
Moon.
- Historical: Sang-Hyeon Ahn, "Meteors and showers
a millennium ago" astro-ph/0304543.
Meteorites
- General: The Meteoritical Society website;
The American Meteor Society's FAQ page;
The Meteoritical Bulletin homepage;
Meteorite Central site;
Planetary Studies Foundation page;
National Geographic game.
- Articles: K. Krajick, "Mining for Meteorites,"
Smithsonian Magazine, March 1999, 90-100.
- Books: R. Hutchison & A. Graham, Meteorites,
The Natural History Museum 2000.
- ANSMET:
The Antarctic Search for Meteorites.
- Arizona meteorites: David Kring's page
and map.
- Meteorites from Mars: NASA JSC webpage,
NASA SNC webpage.
- Meteorites from the Moon: Washington University in
St Louis webpage.
- Companies Selling Meteorites: MARE Meteoritics site.
Large Impacts
- Craters: NASA general info page
and Barringer's Crater (Winslow, AZ) page.
- Effects: Earth Impact Effects Program page
at the University of Arizona.
- Tunguska
Project of the University of Bologna, Italy.
- Article: Luigi Foschini, "A solution for the
Tunguska event," astro-ph/9808312.
Potential Impacts: Near
Earth Objects (see
also the Asteroid resource page)
- Near Earth Objects: British 2000 report;
NASA NEO program.
- Impact Risks: NASA page;
NASA-JPL page.
- NEAT (NASA's
Near Earth Asteroid Tracking System): A cooperative effort with
the US Air Force, the system is mounted on the Maui Space Surveillance
Site (MSSS) 1.2-m telescope.
- Rome-based Spaceguard
Foundation; Wales-based Spaceguard
UK.
- Spacewatch
Project: Based at the University of Arizona, one
of four or five projects around the world that regularly scan
the sky electronically for asteroids and comets, and the first
automated survey of the whole solar system, from the vicinity
of the Earth's orbit to beyond the orbit of Neptune; Started
in 1980, uses a 90 cm and a 1.8-m telescope at the University
of Arizona's Steward Observatory on Kitt Peak mountain.
- Specific Objects: NASA page on asteroid 2004
MN4.
References
- P. Hodge, Meteorite Craters and Impact Structures of the
Earth Cambridge U Press 1994.
- G.L. Verschuur, Impact! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids,
Oxford University Press 1996.
- R.A. Gallant, Meteorite Hunter: The Search for Siberian
Meteorite Craters, McGraw-Hill 2002.
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