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- 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.
- Aerospaceguide.net: Near Earth Asteroid - Descriptions of asteroids, comets, and near Earth objects.
- Asteroids - their history - Introduction paper on asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects.
- Asteroids and Comets - Data from across NASA, compiled at the National Space Science Data Center.
- 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.
- Astrobiology Magazine: Meteors, Comets, and Asteroids - Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.
- Chiron Information and Documentation - A minor body with dual status as both asteroid and comet.
- Comet/Asteroid Orbit Determination and Ephemeris Software - A downloadable Java program for various orbit computations on asteroids and comets.
- Committee on Small Body Nomenclature - Group responsible for the naming of asteroids and comets. Description of the naming process, guidelines for submitting name proposals.
- Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks - Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.
- Meteorites and Asteroids - Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.
- Minor Planet Center - International clearing house for observations of asteroids and comets.
- NASA Planetary Photojournal: Asteroid and Comets - Selected NASA images.
- 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.
- The Nine Planets: Small Bodies in the Solar System - Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.
- NOVA Online: Doomsday Asteroid - Transcript of the television broadcast, kitchen comet activity, general information on comets.
- Orbits - Interactive 3D orbit visualization for known asteroids and comets.
- The Physics of: Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids - Physics of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Application with Newton's and Kepler's Laws, kinetic and potential energy.
- 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.
- Small Bodies - Link collection covering the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, near Earth objects, and impacts.
- Startdate Online: Leftovers - Fact sheets on asteroids and comets, index to radio broadcasts on related topics. From the McDonald Observatory.
- USGS Astrogeology: Other Objects - Official names of features on asteroids as approved by the International Astronomical Union. Data and images for selected asteroids and comets.
- Welcome to the Planets: Small Bodies - Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.
- BBC NEWS: Astronomers Discover 'New Planet' - A telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, Sedna. (March 15, 2004)
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