Beam me back, Astra!
My interest in impact craters goes back to when I was a child fascinated by the mighty dinosaurs. Even then, scientists imagined that a great impact event could have modified the environment of the Cretaceous Earth. Although Hollywood has gloried the possibility of a hazardous impact, the truth remains that Earth is as likely to be stuck by a NEO as it was 65 million years ago.
One of the earliest pioneers of in-depth searches for nearby objects was Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, a co-discoverer of comet SL9, and expert on planetary impacts. I would like to dedicate this page to Dr. Shoemaker, in honor of his many efforts to discover and track these objects so near to us. In March 2000, the NEAR spacecraft was renamed to NEAR Shoemaker.
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Look Out! It's 2004MN4, discovered on June 19, 2004
Information from the Wikipedia the free Encyclopedia
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LINKS TO NEO DETECTION PROGRAMS
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Home Page
LONEOS Lowell Observatory NEO Search
IAU: Minor Planet Center
Asteroid Comet Impact Hazards Website
Asteroid Radar Research Home page -
they also have a great link page !
Planetary Defense - an Air Force Research Paper
START HERE FOR UPDATE Spaceguard Survey
ASTEROID RESOURCE UTILIZATION
Permanent.com - A great site for space colonizers
Asteroids: Industrialization, Mining, Exploration & Colonization
Asteroid Mining Paper by M. J. Sonter
Solar System Exploration Target Bodies - JPL
List Of The Potentially Hazardous Asteroids - Know Thy Enemy!
Internet Impact - Sky Online Impact Page
Earth Crossing Asteroids Main Menu
Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard
Comets, Culture & Currency - from Bob Kobres
IMPACT CRATERS!
Terrestial Impact Craters - - From Calvin J. Hamilton
Chicxulub Seismic Experiment Is this the one that caused the K-T extinctions?
Are we doomed?
Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard Bibliography 1992-1994
Venusian Impact Craters - - From Views of the Solar System
The Planetary Society Visits impact debris in
Belize (Near the Chicxulub crater)
Impact Cratering on Earth - from Canada's Regional Geophysics Section
The Crater in NASA's backyard (Langley Research Center) - The Chesapeake Bay Bolide
LINKS TO *COOL* NEO STUFF !
Check the orbit of your favorite NEO from JPL, it's dynamite
Download a free
Asteroids Game !
Visualizing selected NEOs - from JPL
Impacts Into Asteroids - Simulations by Erik Asphaug
ASTEROIDS IN THE NEWS
Give the Dog a Bone! -
Kleopatra - a very interesting place. . .
A Near Miss Scare!
- CNN interactive news
Press Release from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
SPACECRAFT VISIT NEARBY OBJECTS !
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) - Successful mission at Eros!
Look at
Images from NEAR's encounter with Mathilde June 1997!
Stardust Home Page - Sample return mission to comet Wild2
CONTOUR Comet Nucleus Tour -Comet Encke 11/2003 and
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann-3 6/2006
ESA's Rosetta - Rendevous with Comet 46 P/Wirtanen
JPL's
Deep Space 1 - A Comet Flyby Mission that uses
Ion Propulsion!
Astra's personal favorite, the Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres
NEO Pages
The Planetary Society's NEO Page
JPL's NEO Page
Other NEO Pages
International Meteor Organization (IMO)
- What could be nearer than meteors?
AMOS Mission on Maui U.S.Air Force Tracking Station
Space Debris Home Page This serious problem is explored by Russell D. Hoffman
This page is not complete, but was last updated on 04/02/06!