Links

• Gary Kronk's Comets & Meteor Showers page -- Widely acclaimed as the finest resource on meteors, comets, and meteor showers on the net, this site is maintained by author, astronomy historian and AMS affiliate Gary Kronk.

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• The Minor Planet Center -- The MPC operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under the auspices of Commission 20 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• Asteroids -- from "The Nine Planets" interactive tour of the Solar System
• The Spaceguard Foundation
• Spacewatch -- at Kitt Peak.
• NASA Asteroid Radar Research Page
• LONEOS -- The Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search is a system designed to find Earth-crossing asteroids (ECAs) and comets (ECCs), collectively known as near-Earth objects (NEOs).

• NASA's Comet Observation Page
• Dr. Louis Frank's "Small Comets" -- a controversial theory from a respected aeronomer
• Dr. David Jewitt's Submillimeter Comet Page -- Dr. Jewitt observes comets in the submillimeter wavelengths using the James Clerk Maxwell telescope on Mauna Kea.
• SKY Online's Comets Page
• The International Comet Quarterly
• Weekly Information about Bright Comets -- provided by Seiichi Yoshida

• The International Meteor Organization (IMO) -- a valuable source of information on observing techiniques
• The Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) -- a group of advanced observers providing useful information
• Society for Popular Astronomy Meteor Section (SPA) -- based in Great Britain
• The North American Meteor Network -- a free online meteor group open to all observers
• A.L.P.O. Meteors Section -- specializing in the observations of solar system objects
• The British Astronomical Association (BAA) -- the BAA has a very active meteor section
• The Royal Astonomical Society of Canada -- popularizing all aspects of astronomy across Canada
• Spanish Meteor Society -- observation and analysis of interplanetary matter
• The Jordanian Astronomical Society -- the most active Near Eastern group
• Meteor Group Hawaii
• Night Sky Information by Emil Neata-- Weekly information about the night sky, astronomy articles and observations.
• Mark Fortune's Meteor Blog-- A site dedicated to discussions about meteors.
• The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids, Meteors-- Carl Hergenrother's informative site bringing you cool stuff about Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors

• Interstellar Meteoroids detected by Prof. Jack Baggaley at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
• The American Astronomical Society -- the major professional organization in North America for astronomers and other scientists and individuals interested in astronomy. The History section has a good page on amateurs including the founding of the AMS.
• The NASA Astrophysics Data System Home Page -- Abstracts and reprints from professional journals.
• Arecibo Observatory
• Millstone Hill Observatory -- Incoherent scatter radar in Westford, Massachusetts.
• EISCAT -- Incoherent scatter radar in Norway.
• Automated Radio Meteor Observations at the University of Ghent, Belgium
• NASA Long Duration Exposure Facility -- Meteoroid and Debris Special Investigation Group.
• Solar System Dynamics Group -- at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

• Space Weather --Provided by meteorologist Lee Robertson of the Philadelphia/Mt. Holly weather bureau.

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