Asteroids, Comets and Meteors

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Asteroids - NASA links to asteroid and comets fact sheets, FAQ, imagery, and spacecraft missions.
Dawn - Mission to asteroids Ceres and Vesta
Galileo - spacecraft at Jupiter, images of asteroids Gaspra and Ida.
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - (IAU) - naming of planets, satellites, minor planets (asteroids).
The Minor Planet Center - (International Astronomical Union) - records new discoveries for all asteroids and comets.
NEAR Shoemaker - mission to asteroid 433 Eros.
Near-Earth Object Program - NASA's central program for study of NEAs
OSIRIS-Rex - future asteroid mission
Hayabusa - Japanese Space Agency asteroid mission

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