Common questions.
Overview of current scientific knowledge of asteroids.
Basic information about asteroids, history of asteroid discovery, Bode's Law.
Description, data on selected asteroids, images.
Tools to help observers select targets and plan observations. Also, orbital elements, reference star catalog data and software, link to Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search (LONEOS).
Indexed, searchable database of asteroid data.
NASA JPL asteroid research using radar. Introduction, scientific activity, asteroid images.
Background information, details on selected asteroids, image gallery.
Listing and description of dynamical groups and physical families of asteroids.
Photometry and shape modeling program, magnitude alert project, finder charts, visual observing of minor planets.
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