101. SPACE.com -- Riches In The Rubble Most asteroids are made fromthe raw ingredients of the solar system, The biggest technical difficultyin mining solid metal asteroids such as Amun might http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/asteroid_paine_august.html

advertisement Torino Scale: Disaster Yardstick in Search of a Role Riches in the Rubble By Michael Paine Special to space.com posted: 06:07 pm ET 05 November 1999 Thirtyyears ago, when the Apollo astronauts brought rocks back from the Moon,nobody rushed to stake a mining claim. Only traces of useful materialswere found. The surface of the Moon turned out to be barren and unattractivefor commercial development. Asteroids, however, are anothermatter. Nearly all the raw materials needed to build a self-sufficientspace colony are available on the most common type of asteroid. NASA plansto land a small robotic spacecraft on an asteroid within a few years, justone example of the belief that asteroids are both accessible and worthexploring. Recipe for a Solar System Most asteroids are made fromthe raw ingredients of the solar system, researchers believe. Those ingredientscame from supernova exploding overweight stars. The solidified debrisfrom these explosions contains mainly dust, rocks, water ice and iron (actuallyan alloy of iron, nickel and cobalt a natural stainless steel). Nearly5 billion years ago, under the tug of gravity, debris from supernovas gatheredinto a spinning disk. Most of this material fell into the center of thedisk and formed our Sun. Further out the material formed many planets.As these planets circled the Sun they collided with each other and grewlarger, until just nine planets were left. The debris from these collisions,together with other leftover rubble, was either swallowed up in furthercollisions or was mostly herded into planet-free zones like the asteroidbelt between Mars and Jupiter.

102. Dr. Odenwald's Ask The Astronomer Page Asteroids, Meteors And Comets Extensive FAQ. http://www.itss.raytheon.com/cafe/qadir/ametcom.html

103. IOTA Asteroidal Predictions International Occultation Timing Association. Listed in the table below arethis quarter s asteroidal predictions. The table is self explanatory. http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/asteroids/astrndx.htm

2005 IOTA Asteroidal Predictions for the Western Hemisphere Notes on Upcoming Events (D. Dunham - External Link) Listed in the table below are this quarter's asteroidal predictions. The table is self explanatory. Clicking on the appropriate link will provide the user with the pertinent information concerning the event. Preliminary paths are given as a general description of path track. As predictions and path maps become available, they will be added to the table. Predictions come from Steve Preston's site. Last minute notes on upcoming asteroidal events, from David Dunham, can by found on the link at the top of the page. Also note: 1) This table contains only those predictions that have Goffin Charts available. There are many more fainter asteroidals where there is no Goffin chart. Those are listed on Steve Preston's website (see link below); and 2) that any archiving of past events have been removed from this site. If you need information on past events, please contact Steve Preston, who is now maintaining the archival information. Regarding the difference between "IOTA observable" events, and the extended Goffin list - With the advent of video recording of occultations, many fainter events and those missed in the Goffin listings, extends the range to record events. Differentiating between observable and non-observable becomes a fine line. It is up to the individual with the equipment available, and information provided by Steve Preston and David Dunham, on whether or not the event will be worth the effort. Therefore, as previously marked in past listings here, the use of color coding of events is dropped.

104. Asteroids - Video Game Reviews: The Cincinnati Enquirer 1.5/5 Review by James Bottorff with screen shots. While the new version is fun in small doses, it falls short of capturing the addictive enjoyment found in the original. http://www.cincinnati.com/freetime/games/reviews/asteroids.html

ENQUIRER POST WCPO CIN WEEKLY ... Customer Service Currently: Clear Weather Traffic HOME NEWS ... GOLF GUIDE Asteroids Updated ‘Asteroids’ not much of a hit Asteroids publisher Activision ages Everyone requirements Pentium 90, 16 MB RAM, 70 MB Hard Drive Space, 4X CD-ROM, 2MB Graphics Card, Windows 95/98 (also available for PlayStation) cost difficulty Easy rating (out of 4) screenshots related sites Official Site Activision BY JAMES BOTTORFF The Cincinnati Enquirer Asteroids first invaded arcades some 20 years ago. The game became an instant hit, not because it was a life-changing experience, but because there was little else to plug quarters into. Now, in attempt to ride the recent wave of hurling space object mania, Activision has reinvented the arcade classic for a new generation of game players. How do you update a classic? For starters, incorporate a story line. No you won’t find Bruce Willis as a renegade meteor fighter or Morgan Freeman as a president facing the end of the world. What you will find is a story of futuristic mining grounds threatened by space debris. Your job is to clear the mess in order to provide safe passage for both military and civilian spacecraft. While the story fills two pages of the manual quite nicely, it does little to add to the game’s premise, which remains faithful to the original.

105. ASTEROIDS, The Classic Game. Use the keyboard controls described below to maneuver your ship, destroying asmany asteroids as you can while avoiding collision with them. http://www.webontario.com/asteroids/

For more free online games similar to this one, click below and visit this awesome site: All Cool Games [Note: Play this game with extreme caution! Can be very habit-forming!!] Use the keyboard controls described below to maneuver your ship, destroying as many asteroids as you can while avoiding collision with them. Also watch for the flying saucers armed with guided missles. If you warp into hyperspace, your ship will momentarily disappear then reappear on another part of the screen, gradually fading in. During this time the ship is invunerable. Likewise, when your ship is destroyed, a new one will appear in the center of the screen. You can still maneuver and fire during this time so if you are in imminent danger, you have a couple of seconds to get out of it. Controls S Start Game P Pause Game Cursor Left Rotate Left Cursor Down Reverse Thrust Cursor Right Rotate Right Cursor Up Forward Thrust Spacebar Fire Cannon H Hyperspace M Toggle Sound D Toggle Graphics Detail Note: You may have to click on the black screen before the game will start. If the game appears to run slowly on your machine, try turning sound and/or graphics detail off. This will not affect game play.

106. European Asteroid Research Node objects (AtensApollo-Amor asteroids), and is updated on a regular basis. information in both observational and theoretical research on asteroids. http://earn.dlr.de/

Participating Institutes Activities Data Archives Abstracts and Preprints ... Data-base of physical properties of NEOs is updated continuously An on-line data-base of Physical and Dynamical properties NEOs, with the corresponding bibliographical references is available at the EARN site. This data-base, compiled and maintained at DLR by Gerhard Hahn , contains information on all known near-Earth objects (Atens-Apollo-Amor Asteroids), and is updated on a regular basis. It is also linked to, and reachable from the NEO Dynamics Site NEODyS at the University of Pisa, which provides extensive information on all dynamical aspects of NEOs, including close approach predictions and collision probabilities. E.A.R.N. is an informal association of European research groups active in asteroid research. The idea behind this service is to provide a means for easy and fast communication, exchange of data and other information in both observational and theoretical research on asteroids. This service is hosted by the DLR - Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin

107. Small-Body Orbital Elements Provides access to orbital elements for numbered asteroids, unnumbered asteroids, and comets with element tables using a custom generator (using the current DASTCOM database) or ASCII files. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sb_elem.html

Small-Body Orbital Elements This page provides access to orbital elements for the numbered asteroids, unnumbered asteroids, and comets contained in JPL's DASTCOM database. Element tables are available using a custom generator (using the current DASTCOM database) or as ASCII files (generated using the latest DASTCOM database on 2005 September 18). Elements are in the heliocentric ecliptic J2000 reference frame. Orbital Elements Table Generator ASCII Files (see the table column headings description below. New format as of 2001-Oct-15, H and G added Numbered Asteroids ( 11M ) or gzip compressed file Unnumbered Asteroids ( 19M ) or gzip compressed file Comets ASCII File Column Headings Description Num Number assigned to the asteroid or comet. Numbers are only assigned to secure short-period ( <200 year) comets. Name Name given to the numbered asteroid or comet. Designation Unnumbered asteroid's preliminary designation. Epoch Epoch (Modified Julian Date) of the elements. a (AU) Semi-major axis of the orbit (asteroids only). q (AU) Perihelion distance (comets only).

108. Asteroids: Debris Of The Solar System asteroids are the leftovers of the rocks and ice which made the planets. http://starryskies.com/solar_system/Asteroids/asteroids_top.html

ASTEROIDS Debris in the Solar System When the Solar System formed, not everything was used to make planets and moons, leftovers became asteroids and comets. They are perhaps the oldest remnants of the early Solar System and what we learn from them tells us about our own early history. Most of the asteroids lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, but some have very elliptical orbits which bring them very close to Earth. They range in size from about 30% the diameter of our moon to pebble sized objects. In number, there are probably billion of asteroids in the solar system. The largest known asteroid is Ceres which was the first asteroid to be discovered in 1801. Ceres is about 1/3 the size of our moon. It can be seen in amateur telescopes if one knows where and when to look. Most asteroids are of the small irregular variety. None of them are large enough to have high enough gravity to pull themselves into spherical shape. Images of the same asteroid vary in brightness which confirms the irregular shape. The Galileo spacecraft passed through the asteroid belt twice on its way to Jupiter. The spacecraft passed only 16.000 km from the asteroid Gaspra in 1990 and returned excellent images. Gaspra is an oblong world measuring 20 by 12 by 11 km. It is covered by a layer of shattered soil about a meter deep. There are also numerous craters on Gaspra's surface.

109. Astrology Pages Extensive personal research into asteroids, comets and other objects. http://www.geocities.com/mahtezcatpoc/astrolog.html

My Own Stuff Asteroids Click here for pages on the asteroids I have researched. There are a lot of them. Other Objects Jeborics, or Galactic Points: Deep-Space Radiation Sources Comets Novae and Supernovae Plus: Astrological Hall Of Shame (The worst, most notorious people who ever lived, organized by Sun-sign, with birth dates and places and birth times if available.) Other People's Stuff Astrodienst(Online Chart Computing) NASA Ephemeris Generator Comet Catalog In Order Of Day of Perihelion NED Coordinate Finder ... Jonathan Dunn's Home Page (Click on the picture to enter.) Eric Francis' Home Page Juan Antonio Revilla's Home Page Treehouse Mountain Astrological Products Astrolabe AstroAmerica: Clearinghouse For Astrology Books Project Hindsight: Translations of Ancient Astrological Texts Astro*Carto*Graphy ... Zoidiasoft Technologies Other Useful Links Encyclopedia Mythica Join the Yahoogroups List thefixedstars Join the Yahoogroups List MH2 Join the Yahoogroups List Be-Urania ... Return To The Main Page

110. Asteroids With Canadian Connections A list of asteroids whose names are known to have a Canadian connection, usuallybecause they are named after a Canadian. http://www.rasc.ca/faq/asteroids/home.htm

Asteroids with Canadian Connections Page Last Updated: 2005-05-11 This is a list of asteroids whose names are known to have a Canadian connection, usually because they are named after a Canadian. Clicking on the orbit icon will take you to Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's orbit applet. Number Name Designation(s) Discovery Citation (but not necessarily the official one) Where the citation given here expands upon the official citation, the added material was edited by Peter Jedicke, who is solely responsible for any errors or omissions. Minor Planet Circular page reference where the official announcement (and citation) is found and/or Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada volume and page reference Watsonia (none) 1912-02-09 by J. H. Metcalf at Winchester Named in honour of the American astronomer James Craig Watson (b. 1838 in Fingal, Ontario, d. 1880), director of the Ann Arbor Observatory, Michigan, who detected some comets and 22 minor planets. He left an endowment with the National Academy for the care of the "Watson" asteroids. Watson is also honoured by a lunar crater. Newcombia (none) Named in honour of the American astronomer Simon Newcomb (b. 1835, d. 1909), professor of astronomy and director of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office. Newcomb worked on cometary and planetary orbits and on the theory of the orbit of the Earth. He measured the velocity of light and determined the astronomical unit anew. Newcomb in also honoured by craters on the Moon and on Mars.

111. Astronomy 161: The Solar System Overview with historical background and basic astronomy concepts, details about planets, satellites, asteroids, comets and meteors. http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/

Astronomy 161 The Solar System In this semester of Astronomy we shall concern ourselves primarily with the Solar System. As an introduction to that, we shall consider the historical development of our modern picture of the Solar System. Introduction A Sense of Time and Scale in the Universe Precursors to Modern Astronomy Overview of the Sky and Planets ... ASTRONOMY 162 LECTURES Next Back Top Home Help

112. BBC - Science & Nature - Space - Asteroids Explore the asteroids with BBCi s guide to the Solar System. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/asteroids/index.shtml

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index MONDAY 19th September 2005 Text only Animals Prehistoric Life Space ... BBC Homepage In Space Solar System 3D tour Sun ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! You are here: BBC Space Solar System Vote: Asteroid Danger? ... Asteroid Attack Game ASTEROIDS DEFINITION Asteroids are lumps of rocky debris that float around in the Solar System. Most are found in the main asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. REASONS TO VISIT See relics of the formation of the Solar System Some asteroids have carbon-bearing compounds and may have delivered organic, life forming chemicals to the early Earth In future, mining asteroids could provide raw materials for colonising space Solar System Jigsaw Can you build the Solar System? WHAT TO SEE Asteroids range in size from tiny dust particles to huge worlds nearly 1,000 km (600 miles) across. Most asteroids are oddly shaped. They aren't spherical like planets, because their gravity is too low to pull them into a round form. (This only happens when asteroids are over 250 km in size.) Smaller ones are angular and shaped like potatoes and peanuts. The oddest looking asteroid so far is called 'Kleopatra', which looks like a 220km long dog bone.

113. FAIR-Society, Future Asteroid Interception Research An organization raising funds for projects that search for threatening asteroids. http://www.fair-society.org

F uture A steroid I nterception R esearch Non-profit fund raising for astronomers hunting asteroids, meteorites, comets, and NEOs, (near earth objects). [ Home ] How FAIR Works Comments Join HERE Links ... Members' List Non-profit fund raising for astronomers hunting asteroids, meteorites, comets, and NEOs, (near earth objects) Giant meteorites not on your list of concerns? Then think of FAIR as a project to save the donkeys ... [ Continued " I found the articles, which are all about things that have, will, or might collide with Earth, to be well written, balanced, and highly informed. I was shocked to learn about the near misses, and even direct hits, from space Kate Russell of Click Online 14th April 2005... Full Review If you think this doesn't concern you, pick a number from 1 to 40 ... Say this number represents a fortune. Now ask yourself, with only 39 others in the hat, would you stick around for the lucky draw, or at least take time to check the result? If so, then consider this ... Those are the odds we currently face in the latest asteroid discovery . In which case if our number comes up there are no winners, and everyone loses.

114. Cygo's Space Initiative Organization and forum focused on mining the asteroids. http://cygo.com

Mining near asteroids is the way to go promising wealth and a bright legacy for the future. Join our SpaceCity mailing list Notable Members Meteorologist kiarashniknejad Physics Attorney at Law Planetary Scientist Gary LaSasso Artist Engineers afizah Baduqwa drobnjaka homeless meckardt Rocketsci Joe Russo Sal zemoxian Teachers Alexi sydcarten Message Boards Pers Calendar Engineering Conversion Factors Search Google Scholar CYGO's Space Initiative With convincing presentations before the U.N., manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, citizen action groups, and individuals, along with plans reviewed and backed by reputable aerospace engineers and accountants, mining near asteroids becomes a reality resulting in a world economic upturn, greater manufacturing capability, more implementable alternative energy sources, environmental improvements, medical treatments, and cheaper space access for all. JOIN NOW Space news Space calendars Upcoming launches and other events. Tech Tips Aerospace engineering Aerospace engineers Club - Yahoo Aerospace technology - links Space technology - links ESA (related info) Artificial gravity Formula Settlement Design ISS centrifuge Astrogeology NEO Research NASA Planetary Resources Planetary Sci - NSSDC NASA Astrobiology Earth work Deep Ecology Movement Ecological Engineering Int'l Ecological Engineering Soc.

115. Solar System Fluff The number of asteroids shoots up with decreasing size. The combined mass of allof the asteroids is less than the Moon s mass. Very likely the asteroids http://www.astronomynotes.com/solfluf/s2.htm

Asteroids Chapter index in this window Chapter index in separate window This material (including images) is . See my for fair use practices. There are thousands, even millions, of small rocks that orbit the Sun, most of them between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. A plot of the known asteroids is available at the Minor Planet Center. About one million of them are larger than 1 kilometer across. Those smaller than about 300 kilometers across have irregular shapes because their internal gravity is not strong enough to compress the rock into a spherical shape. The largest asteroid is Ceres with a diameter of 1000 kilometers. Pallas and Vesta have diameters of about 500 kilometers and about 15 others have diameters larger than 250 kilometers. The number of asteroids shoots up with decreasing size. The combined mass of all of the asteroids is less than the Moon's mass. Very likely the asteroids are pieces that would have formed a planet if Jupiter's strong gravity had not stirred up the material between Mars and Jupiter. The rocky chunks collided at speeds too high to stick together and grow into a planet. Though there are over a million asteroids, the volume of space they inhabit is very large, so they are far apart from one another. Unlike the movie

116. Our Solar System An overview of the sun, the nine planets, asteroids, comets, and other links. http://www.geocities.com/zinazora/solarsystem/index.htm

Our Solar System: Some scientists think the Solar System began as a cloud of dust and gas. Gravity pulled the cloud in and out, making it smaller and dense (thicker). As it shrank, the cloud heated up and the Sun formed. Some of the clouds flattened out and shaped into a disc, which spun around the new Sun. Particles of gas and dust within the disc bumped each other, which made them stick together and form large lumps. These lumps grew into planets, all of them revolving around the Sun. One group of rocky lumps never grew into planets and these are what we call "asteroids". All information and pictures are courtesy of NASA. Sun The Nine Planets Asteroids Comets ... Links For questions or comments contact me at brooksde@hayscisd.net.

117. Where Is The Asteroid Belt Other groups of asteroids include the Amor asteroids which cut across the orbit Some of the asteroids which are close to the earth were photographed and http://www.edunet.ie/stlaur/belt.html

Where is the Asteroid Belt? The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. There are so many that they are divided into different groups such as the Trojan asteroids which are 60 degrees in front of and behind the orbit of Jupiter. Other groups of asteroids include the Amor asteroids which cut across the orbit of Mars and the Apollo asteroids that cut across the orbit of the Earth and are probably to blame for the asteroid craters on earth and in the future they might be a source of metals and other minerals for us to mine in space. Some of the asteroids which are close to the earth were photographed and investigated by the space craft Galileo when it was on it's way to Jupiter. It took the first ever close up pictures of an asteroid and showed that the asteroid 951 Gaspa was covered in craters and had a layer of loose fragmentscovering it. This is a graph of the asteroids in our solar system Click here to return to homepage

118. Power Age Sky Simulator Home Page basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. Shareware Win9x http://www.poweragesky.com

Power Age Sky Simulator is original astronomical software which gives you the ability to observe the sky on your computer. Even if you have other computer sky simulator software, you will be pleasantly surprised with what Power Age Sky Simulator offers you. Keeping in mind the beautiful interface and the successful construction of Power Age , it is of interest for more than just those people who deal with astronomy. This program is not made to be great, it's just made to be useful and to some extent, to be enjoyable. Power Age Sky Simulator is software which you will like no matter who are you and what you do. "I have no complaints about the program's behavior - it never crashed, I never experienced any mysterious glitches, and the interface is rock solid. I am impressed by the programmer's skill and the stability of the software" Send mail to george@poweragesky.com with questions or comments about this web site. George Dragandjikov Last modified: February 02, 2004

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120. Free Online Arcade Games From Zap Arcade Online versions of classic arcade machine games including Space Invaders, Defender, Pong, and asteroids. http://www.zaparcade.com/

Free online arcade games from Zap Arcade are fully featured, super quick to download, and run straight in your browser! To play these free online arcade games just click the links on the left... The online arcade games here include versions of arcade classics, including Invaders, Defender, Asteroids and Pong, as well as many more. We will always be adding more quality free online games to this site, so keep checking back for updates! The Arcade Games section of this site contains links to what we think are the best free online arcade games on other sites. This is a truely fantastic selection of online arcade games, and the quality of some of these arcade games is oustanding! We also have a Crediplay section to our site. This section contains a selection of storming free online arcade games which are a total joy to play! The games are of course completely free to play, although you have the option of playing in an online tournament for a nominal entrance fee in which you can win cash prizes. Entering an online tournament is exciting, and gives a whole new thrill to your online arcade gaming experience! To play the Crediplay online arcade games for free all you have to do is register, which only takes a few seconds because all you need to give is your name and email address. You can then play the games straight away. If you want to experience the thrill of playing in an online arcade game tournament for a chance to win a cash prize you will need to enter some further details, but full instructions are given on the site.

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