Hot Links - Astronomy

.. and something particular:

• Leonid 1999 impacts on the Moon captured!
• Earth's co-orbital companion: Asteroid 3753 Cruithne, a 5-km size object, discovered 1986.
• Asteroid 1997 XF 11 will come close to Earth in 2028; Discovery photos of 1997 XF 11 (Spacewatch); 1997 XF 11 Encounter info by Alan B. Chamberlin and Paul W. Chodas who calculated a more acurate orbit for it (it will pass at 0.0063 AU on Oct 26, 2028 around 6:00 UT and will become as bright as magnitude 8.6, according to this estimate, rushing through constellation Cancer, see JPL ephemerides). Asteroid 1997 XF11 info (SSD/JPL)

Hot Astronomy Stuff -- really cool !

• CNN space news
• Space Calendar: Monthly arranged history of astronomy and spaceflight
• Spacenight: The Bavarian Broadcasting TV (Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bavaria, Germany) transmits this program every night..
• Astro Software: Planetarium programs (by Bill Arnett)

New Planets

• Planet Candidates Catalog and New Planet Page at the Paris Observatory
• SFSU Extrasolar Planet Search
• Darwin Project: Looking for New Earth-like Planets
• New Planet Page at the University of Oregon
• Nasa's Kepler project for searching extrasolar Earth-like planets
• Other Solar Systems from Bill Arnett's NinePlanets Multimedia Pages

Comets

• Comet links: There are so many "hot" comet links that I have compiled an extra list..
• SL9-List: List of sites holding images of the SL9-Jupiter crash (by me) [plain ascii version]