Asteroid Surveys

The asteroid belt

External links

Some nice photographs including one of the asteroid Ida and its moon, Dactyl. One of these jpegs would make a great top photo for this Asteroid Survey portal if one could discover NASA's policy on using its public domain photographs.

• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-asteroids.html

New set of telescopes working together better than all previous combined for asteroid survery.

• http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~kaiser/pan-starrs/pressrelease/

NASA's NEO tracking efforts and risk assessment. Nice links to photos available online.

• http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

ESA study results regarding estimated quantity of asteroids at large.

• http://www.esa.int/esaCP/ESAASPF18ZC_index_0.html

Spaceguard report from Sydney. Available in PDF as well.

• http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/paine_iau_forum.pdf

Summary of NASA's current efforts to locate asteroids. Available in PDF as well.

• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ww_ZOE-N-TYJ:www.lpi.usra.edu/books/AsteroidsIII/pdf/3037.pdf+asteroid+searches&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=17

NEAR Shoemaker's web site at John Hopkin's Applied Physics Laboratory. Photographs and data.

• http://near.jhuapl.edu/

See also

• Earth-impact events
• w:Category:Near-Earth object tracking
• w:Category:Asteroid_surveys