RELATED SITES
Links to Related Sites
NEODyS
Our service for Near Earth Objects.
The International Astronomical Union
home page Starting point to reach a wealth of information
about the IAU, its organisation, officers, scientific and
administrative activities, memembership, etc.
The International
Astronomical Union Division A: Fundamental Astronomy
Home page of the IAU Division A. This Division provides a focus
for astronomers studying a wide range of problems related to
fundamental physical phenomena such as time, the inertial reference
frame, positions and proper motions of celestial objects, and precise
dynamical computation of the motions of bodies in stellar or planetary
systems in the Universe.
C.A4 - Inter-Division A-F Commission Celestial Mechanics and
Dynamical Astronomy belongs to this division.
The International Astronomical
Union Division F: Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy
Division F gathers astronomers engaged in the study of a
comprehensive range of phenomena in the solar system and its bodies,
from the major planets via comets to meteorites and interplanetary
dust.
C.F1 - Division F Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites, and Interplanetary Dust,
Division F Working Group Near Earth Objects,
Division F Working Group Small Bodies Nomenclature (SBN),
C.X2 - Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides belong to this division.
The Minor
Planet Center
This is the center designated by the IAU as the
clearing house for astrometric observations. The MPC is responsible
for receiving, checking, and disseminating the observations.
ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Center
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Center is the European Space Agency Center
for the Segment NEO of the Space Situational Awareness program.
It is located at ESRIN (Frascati, Italy).
NASA's NEO Program site at Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
Another good introduction to NEO's. This
site is written for the layman, so it has a highly accessible
description of the problem and what is being done about it. Includes
an excellent listing of future encounters with Potentially Hazardous
Asteroids, as well as the Risk
Page provided by the complementary JPL's impact monitoring system,
Sentry.