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Meteorites For Science, Education & Collectors


NASA - Deep Impact Mission
Comet Impact: July 4, 2005.
Sections include: News ; Images ; Media Resources ; Mission to a Comet ; Multimedia ; Spacecraft & Instruments ; Team ; Timeline.

SPACE.com
Sections include: Destinations ; News ; SpaceFlight ; Science ; Technology ; Entertainment ; SpaceViews ; NightSkys ; Community.

Seattle Times

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Stardust
    NASA's Comet Sample Return Mission
    Sections include: Overview ; Mission ; Science ; Technology ; Newsroom ; Education ; Gallery ; Links ; Comet Resources.
    • Wild 2 Sample - January 2, 2004
      "Team Stardust, NASA's first dedicated sample return mission to a comet, passed a huge milestone today by successfully navigating through the particle and gas-laden coma around comet Wild 2 (pronounced "Vilt-2"). During the hazardous traverse, the spacecraft flew within 240 kilometers (149 miles) of the comet, catching samples of comet particles and scoring detailed pictures of Wild 2's pockmarked surface."

Alone No More - (dead link)
Meteorite ALH84001 Provides Evidence of Martian Life - Scientists Announce Discovery of Fossilized Alien Bacteria. Includes NASA Press Releases

American Meteor Society

Asteroid & Comet Impact Hazards - (dead link)
Includes Congressional statements & testimony, reports, gallery, news, a catalog of of potentially hazardous asteroids, and more
NASA Ames Space Science Division

  • Possible Impact in 2880 - (dead link) (April 2002)
    "The orbit of asteroid 1950 DA is known so well that we can consider a possible impact with Earth more than 800 years in the future

Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page - (dead link)
The Great Comet of 1997
Maintained by Ron Baalke

Comet Hale-Bopp Image Archive - (dead link)
Over 5,000 images

Deep Impact:
The First Look Inside a Comet!
"Scheduled for July 2005, Deep Impact's spacecraft will arrive at comet Tempel 1 and become the first mission to impact the surface of a comet."

Hale-Bopp Post-Perihelion Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope

Comet Hyakutake Home Page (JPL)
The Great Comet of 1996

Comet Hyakutake Image Archive
Over 1000 images

Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
Includes 1444 images from 64 observatories, animations, and the latest conclusions
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Comet Observation Home Page - (dead link)
Contains plenty of images, resources and news
Maintained by Charles S. Morris

Comets and Meteor Showers

Impact of an Asteroid off the New York Coast - (dead link)
Simulation exercise

Impact Site - (dead link)
Sections include Meteorite Gallery & Meteorites on the Web
By Jim Hurley

International Meteor Organization

Exploring the Solar System with Meteorites from Antarctica - (dead link)
An informative K-12 site
NASA Johnson Space Center

The Meteoritical Society - (dead link)

  • Educational Links - (dead link)

Meteors, Meteorites and Impacts
A nice general introduction with images, tables and a lot of links to additional resources
Maintained by Bill Arnett


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NASA Science News - (dead link)

  • Arctic Asteroid!
    "A 200 metric ton rock from space streaked across the skies of western Canada on January 18, 2000."
    Article from June 1, 2000.

National Geographic - Asteroids: Deadly Impact (K-8)

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission (NEAR)
 This educational site includes the latest news from NEAR Shoemaker and asteroid 422 Eros, Movies, PDF Image Sheets, Image of the Day (with archive) and much more.

Near-Earth Object (NEO) Program
"This Program Office was established in mid-1998 to help coordinate, and provide a focal point for, the study of those comets and asteroids that can approach the Earth's orbit...The intent of this web page is to bring together relevant information on all aspects of Near-Earth Object studies and, in particular, to explain why these objects are so important to life on Earth. These objects have struck the Earth in the past and they will do so in the future."
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site - NEODyS
"NEODyS provides information and services for all Near Earth Asteroids. Each NEA has its own dynamically generated home page providing information and services, and a search facility puts the information in easy reach."

The Spacewatch Project
 "The primary goal of Spacewatch is to explore the various populations of small objects in the solar system, and study the statistics of asteroids and comets in order to investigate the dynamical evolution of the solar system...CCD scanning studies the Centaur, Trojan, Main-Belt, Trans-Neptunian, and Earth-approaching asteroid populations.  Spacewatch also finds potential targets for space missions, provides astrometric support for spacecraft mission planning, and finds objects that might present a hazard to the Earth."
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona

Tagish Lake Meteorite / Fireball Investigation - (dead link)
Status of Consortium Study by the University of Calgary, University of Western Ontario and NASA/JSC
"The Fall, Recovery, Orbit, and Composition of the Tagish Lake Meteorite: A New Type of Carbonaceous Chondrite."
Comprised of some of the oldest material from the solar system yet recovered.

 



 


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