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Home / Science / Astronomy / Amateur / Solar System Observing / Asteroids
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- 2002 NY 40 Flyby - The small asteroid was observed visually, in exceptionally clear skies, with an 8-inch reflecting telescope, on August 16-17 and 17-18.
personal.atl.bellsouth.net/lig/p/s/pstef/2002NY40.html
- IAU: Minor Planet Center - We are the official body that deals with astrometric observations and orbits of minor planets (asteroids) and comets.
cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html
- Minor Planet Center Orbit Database - Ftp access to the complete set of minor planet (asteroid) orbits generated and compiled by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. MPCORB contains orbits for every object for which it is possible to make a reasonable prediction of where the object is. MPCORB currently contains over 30000 orbits.
ftp://cfa-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/MPCORB
- Sky and Telescope's Asteroids Page -
SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/asteroids
- Small-Body Orbital Elements - from JPL/NASA. Provides access to orbital elements for the numbered asteroids, unnumbered asteroids, and comets contained in JPL's DASTCOM database.
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sb_elem.html
- The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database - astorb.dat is an ASCII file of high-precision osculating orbital elements, ephemeris uncertainties, and some additional data for all the numbered asteroids and the vast majority of unnumbered asteroids (multi-apparition and single-apparition) for which it is possible to make reasonably determinate computations.
ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html
- Minor Planet Mailing List Random Archive and FAQ - These pages contain information about the Minor Planet Mailing list as well as a number of interesting and important ideas for the minor planet observer.
www.bitnik.com/mp
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