Sites and Articles
about the Meteor Threat
Articles
- Another Hazardous
Asteroid Discovered -- SpaceViews, 7 Feb 2000
- New Observations
Eliminate Asteroid Impact Threat SpaceViews, 9 Feb 2000
- "Richter
Scale" of Asteroid Impact Threats Announced-- (SpaceViews, Jul.
1999)
- Commentary on the
Impact Hazard -- 1998; includes commentary on Asteroid 1997XF11
- "Deep
Impact": It Could Happen -- a pessimistic view (CNN, May 1998)
- NASA: Asteroid
to Miss Earth by a Wide Margin -- It was originally thought Asteroid
1997 XF11 had a chance of hitting the Earth in 2028; subsequent data
proved that wrong. (CNN, 12 Mar. 1998)
- 7 Asteroids Pose Threat to Earth,
Scientist Says -- (July 1997)
- Scientific
American: Bang and Splat-- computer simulations of an impact (Sci.
Amer., May 1997)
Sites
- Phycoid's
Asteroid 1997XF11 web page
- Asteroid Impact
Countdown Clock -- for those who still want to believe Asteroid
1997XF11 will hit Earth in Oct. 2028
- 1908 Siberia
Explosion
- Meteors,
Meteorites and Impacts -- info. on chem. composition, classifications.
From 'The 9 Planets' online tutorial
- Asteroids Near Earth:
Retrieval for Materials Utilization -- asteroid mining; includes chem.
composition
- Chicxulub Impact Crater
Provides Clues to Earth's History
- Forthcoming
Close Approaches to the Earth a list of the predicted
minor-planet/comet encounters to within 0.2 AU (29,800,000 km) of Earth
- JPL's Comet Observation Home Page
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission Home Page - NEAR arrived at Asteroid Eros on 14 Feb 2000