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Asteroid Discovery Circumstances - For each minor planet: Where and when found, and by whom.
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/dc_home.html
Exploring the Moon - Timeline of Lunar exploration.
www.space.edu/moon
Exploring The Planets-Discovery - The five known in antiquity, three more since the telescope, and Ceres.
www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/discovery/etpdiscovery.html
Neptune and Pluto - Mathematical discovery of planets
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Neptune_and_Pluto.html
Neptune's Discovery - Article in Astronomy Magazine.
www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/000/119ipise.asp
Notes on Sunspot Observations - John Winthrop's 1739 notes, from the collected papers of Fredrick Kilgour.
www.oclc.org/pdemo/kg/p012.htm
Orbits and Gravitation - The development of the mathematics of planetary motion.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Orbits.html
Solar Astronomy - A timeline.
www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/solar.html
Solar System Astronomy - A timeline.
www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/planets.html
The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery - On-line version of the book by William Sheehan.
www.uapress.arizona.edu/online.bks/mars/contents.htm
The Struggles to Find the Ninth Planet - A paper by Clyde Tombaugh relating his discovery of Pluto.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/ice_fire//9thplant.htm