41. NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID TRACKING An autonomous celestial observatory developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and funded by NASA to study asteroids and comets. http://neat.jpl.nasa.gov/

NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID TRACKING SCHEDULE: NEAT observations are in progress at MSSS. NEAT observations at Palomar are scheduled to occur in the pre-new Moon periods. Optimization of the new and improved QUEST camera at Palomar continues. INFO-PRESS RELEASES LINKS INTERESTING OBJECTS BY MONTH MOVIE ... NEAT/Palomar 48" Oschin Telescope NEAT is comprised of two autonomous observing systems at Maui Space Surveillance Site, NEAT/MSSS, and at Palomar Observatory, NEAT/Palomar. At both sites the NEAT cameras use 1.2-m (48") telescopes to find Near-Earth objects (NEOs), both Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and comets. In April TNO LATE BREAKING IMAGES In May we discovered 1 NEA: an Apollo. DISCOVERIES THIS MONTH WITH DESIGNATIONS AND CHARACTERIZATION Designat. Disc. with NEAT/ Date Vel. (deg/day) Mag. Size in km (miles) Orbit Visual. Comment* 2004 JC Palomar 8 May orbit Apollo Amors Apollos , and Atens are the three categories of Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). Amor asteroids approach the Earth's orbit from the outside, Apollo asteroids cross the Earth's orbit, and Aten asteroids approach the Earth's orbit from the inside. Potentially Hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are larger than ~0.2 km (0.1 mile) and approach close enough to present a potential hazard but not a current hazard.

42. Java Boutique, The Ultimate Java Applet Resource - Asteroids Use the keyboard controls described below to maneuver your ship, destroying as many asteroids as you can while avoiding collision with them. http://javaboutique.internet.com/asteroids/

Search Tips Articles Tutorials Reviews ... Forums Sign up for email newsletters from DevX find a web host with: CGI Capabilities MySQL 24-hour Support Unix Hosting Telnet/SSH Shopping Cart Microsoft SQL Server advanced search Clipart Photos Fonts Web Art asteroids 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. How To Use Download asteroids.zip (74KB) and unzip within your HTML directory. Java Source: source.html HTML Source: Configuration: config.html

43. Asteroids Dynamic Site Indexed, searchable database of asteroid data. http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/astdys/astibo

This web site provides data on numbered and multiopposition asteroids, including orbital elements, their uncertainty, proper elements, and so on. The following catalogs are updated every month. The last monthly update has been based upon the observational data released by the MPC, containing the observations performed until April 20, 2008 . The orbits are always recomputed when and if new observations are available, with the OrbFit free software . Note that the current operational AstDyS system is using the Fortran 95 version of the software; thus the format of the observation files [astname].rwo has been changed and cannot be read with the Fortran 77 version of the sofware. The format of the orbital elements files has not been changed. How does it work? These important links are at the top and bottom of every page: Object list To browse the list of objects in the AstDyS database. Observatory list To browse the list of observing stations. Search To search for a specific object or for objects with particular characteristics. Orbital elements Catalogs of Orbital elements Proper elements Catalogs of proper elements Related sites Links to related WWW sites.

44. GameArchive: Atari Asteroids asteroids was released in Upright, Cocktail and Cabaret cabinets. There was also a small number of Gold asteroids games(maybe only one). http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Manufacturers/Atari/asteroids.html

FACTOID: Bally's 1997 game 'Cirqus Voltaire' is the only game to have it's score display mounted on the playfield. (source IPD Wednesday May 28th, 2008 contact stats frame breaker about gamearchive Pinball Serial Numbers Register your pinball serial numbers... www.ipsnd.net General Articles Collectors ... Stuff User Poll What era of Video Games do you enjoy playing most? 1991-Present view results Asteroids Game Stats Cabinet Styles: Upright: November 1979 Cocktail: April 1980 Cabaret: June 1980 Notes: Production Run/Serial #'s Asteroids was released in Upright, Cocktail and Cabaret cabinets. There was also a small number of "Gold Asteroids" games(maybe only one). The game was made to commemorate the 50,000th Asteroids game produced. Game Description Asteroids sits right up there with Pac-Man and Space Invaders as a classic. From the hypnotic bass to the swarming asteroid field this game had every intention of success. The production run for this game exceeded 70,000!! units. Asteroids was so popular that the production line for Lunar Lander was switched over to producing Asteroids games, this is why some Asteroids are in Lunar Lander cabinets (about 200 were done this way!). Your mission is basically to reduce the floating asteroids down to rubble and finally dust. Each asteroid when shot breaks into two smaller ones. As you create your destruction you must avoid enemy flying saucers that will try and shoot you down. The saucers come in two flavors, large and small. The large ones of course easier to hit and are much less accurate with their lasers, while the smaller saucers are quick and accurate(they also score 1000 points, motivation for saucer hunting). When you clear the level, alas... more asteroids appear, and in greater numbers.

45. Asteroids Games - Free Online Games Play the best free asteroids games on Agame.com. Asteroid Rampage 2 Blasteroids Asteroid Dodge Asteroid Rampage 2 Blasteroids http://www.agame.com/games/asteroids/asteroids.html

Asteroids Back to Action Games Captain Zorro Blasteroids Asteroid Rampage 2 Rating: 7 Rating: 6 Rating: 7 Square Divide Asteroid Dodge Bubble Tanks Rating: 7 Rating: 7 Rating: 6 Super Biology Subluceo Luminara Rating: 7 Rating: 7 Rating: 7

46. Astronomy For Kids Includes information and two pictures related to this topic. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/asteroid.html

ASTEROIDS Are also known as the Minor Planets. Orbit the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Usually range in size from 1 kilometer to 1000 kilometers across. Are difficult to observe because of their small size. Gaspra (above) and Ida (right) are two known Asteroids. Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta are some other of the larger Asteroids. Sometimes have moons that orbit them. Notice the small moon that orbits Ida (right).

47. Homepage Welcome to Asteroid Homepage!! Now it s simple for you to learn about asteroids, all you have to do is point and click on the highlighted text, http://www.edunet.ie/stlaur/asteroid.html

Welcome to Asteroid Homepage!! Now it's simple for you to learn about asteroids, all you have to do is point and click on the highlighted text, but you know that already. We hope you enjoy learning a little about asteroids with out being hit with fancy words and scientific jargon. So hang around this page and get it onto a cool sites list! What is an Asteroid? Where is the Asteroid Belt? Near Earth Asteroids Finding Asteroids ... Click here to return to St. Laurence College page

48. SBN Data Archives Dr E. Bowell at Lowell Observatory maintains a file containing elements for all numbered asteroids, which he makes available free of charge through his Web http://pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/sbnhtml/

Small Bodies Data Archives These directories contain the on-line data holdings of the Small Bodies Node and additional support files, as they are made available. The files in these directories are also accessible by FTP. Data Holdings The SBN datasets are available on-line for browsing and downloading. The vast majority of which are in the form of ASCII or binary tables of numbers. A description of the various file types you might encounter can be found here Asteroid Data and Services The asteroid archives are maintained by the Asteroid Subnode of the SBN, located at the Planetary Sciences Institute in Tucson, AZ. Comet Data and Services The comet archives are maintained at the main SBN site at the University of Maryland Dust Data and Services The interplanetary dust archives are also available through the Asteroid Subnode Orbital Elements The calculation of orbital elements is a complex and never-ending process. We do not maintain orbital elements here at the Small Bodies Node, however there are two independent sources for elements over the Web: Dr E. Bowell

49. Untitled Document Includes a multimedia tour that provides a history background dedicated to these bodies as well as images that present the actual position of them. http://www.geocities.com/zlipanov/

50. Flash Asteroids Flash asteroids. Click the Play button to start. Use the arrow keys to move, shoot using the Sorry, you will need the Flash Player to play asteroids. http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/flash_asteroids/

Flash Asteroids Click the Play button to start. Use the arrow keys to move, shoot using the space bar. Your name can be entered on the high score list. Sorry, you will need the Flash Player to play Asteroids. Click for Many, Many More FREE Arcade Games to Play!! Powered by The PCman Website Free Monster Energy Drink Get a Free Photo iPod PCPowerScan Free Download ... $500 Visa Gift Card var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));

51. Coding4Fun : Kid's Programming Language: Asteroids! This article is the second of a series in which we are recreating classic video games in KPL code—in this article, asteroids! Jon Schwartz Difficulty Easy http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/11/03/940231.aspx

Kid's Programming Language: Asteroids! This article is the second of a series in which we are recreating classic video games in KPL code—in this article, Asteroids! Jon Schwartz Difficulty: Easy Time Required: Less than 1 hour Cost: Free Software: Kid's Programming Language Hardware: Download: Download Have you seen the previous articles here at Coding4Fun about KPL, the Kid's Programming Language ? The overview is here , and the article on KPL Pong is here . KPL is not just for kids; it's for anyone who wants to code fun stuff fast. Proving the point, this is the second of a series in which we are recreating classic video games in KPL code—in this article, Asteroids ! Asteroids is a big step up from our Pong example—a lot more code here. Next in the series, by the way? Missile Command —just like the old days! (Click image to zoom) Here are some fun historical links about Asteroids, which Atari released in 1979: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids http://www.oilzine.com/features/features_details.asp?ID=49 KLOV.com is, of course, the Killer List of Videogames. :D Check out this historical highlight from the Wiki: "In March 2004, Portland, Oregon resident

52. PERMANENT: Asteroid Mining, Space Colonies, Commercialization Rapid development of space using material from asteroids near Earth and from the Moon. http://www.permanent.com/

intro site map search news ... feedback home .....in all geologic time, our generation will get mankind off our lonely planetary cradle..... P rojects to E mploy R esources of the M oon and A steroids N ear E arth in the N ear T erm L i f e It is a race against time, before a biotechnology supervirus makes mankind extinct, or nanotechnology destroys Earth's biosphere, suddenly. G o a l s Don't expensively launch from Earth, use construction materials already in space. Build valuable, profitable products and habitats in orbit (not send back to Earth). Non-governmental, commercial, faster, cheaper large scale space development. O r g a n i z a t i o n PERMANENT is an introductory guide for all, a reference source for experts and a news site on space resources. We link to known, quality websites, stockpile technical resources of third parties not on the web, and help them publish on the web. We can do this NOW with present-day technology and a philanthropic investor Browse website Asteroids Near Earth Lunar Materials Transportation Industrial Processes ... To Do List For general or specific e-mail regarding PERMANENT, please use our Feedback page.

53. SkyandTelescope.com - Asteroids Includes student project award, hunting, and grants issued presented by Sky and Telescope. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/asteroids

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54. Asteroids With Satellites Lists of known or suspected asteroids with satellites. Also history, graphs, links. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoons.html

Asteroids with Satellites by Wm. Robert Johnston last updated 21 May 2008 Contents: List of confirmed and suspected binary asteroids/TNOs with links to separate pages of data and links on specific binary asteroids/TNOs Tables of data on binary asteroids and other reports of asteroid/TNO companions (separate pages) General discussion Images and figures regarding binary asteroids/TNOs (separate pages) General links including link to separate page listing abstracts at ADS List of confirmed and suspected binary asteroids/TNOs by class or by designation, with orbital class of object in parenthesis (Follow links to pages with data and links on specific objects, including links to abstracts at ADS): by dynamical class: near Earth objects: (1862) Apollo (Apollo) (1866) Sisyphus (Apollo) (3671) Dionysus and S/1997 (3671) 1 (Amor) (5381) Sekhmet (Aten) (7088) Ishtar (Amor) (31345) 1998 PG (Amor) (35107) 1991 VH (Apollo) (65803) Didymos (Amor) (Aten) (Aten) (69230) Hermes (Apollo) (Apollo) (Apollo) (Aten) (Amor) (162000) 1990 OS (Apollo) (Aten) (Apollo) (Apollo) and S/2000 (2000 DP107) 1 (Apollo) (Amor) 1994 XD (Apollo) (Aten) (Apollo) (Amor) (Apollo) (Amor) (Apollo) 2004 DC (Apollo) 2005 AB (Amor) (Apollo) (Apollo) (Apollo) (Apollo) Mars crossers: (1139) Atami (2044) Wirt (5407) 1992 AX (16635) 1993 QO main belt members: (22) Kalliope and Linus (41) Daphne ... (45) Eugenia, Petit-Prince,

55. Macromedia - Developer Center : Making And Playing Asteroids With Macromedia Fla Making and playing asteroids with Macromedia Flash MX. When Macromedia released Flash MX, I couldn t wait to play with it. With its new drawing features and http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/asteroids.html

Search Welcome Your account Sign out Your cart Contact ... Solutions Industries Broadcast and media Education Financial services Government ... Manufacturing Solutions Consumer photo and video Mobile Print publishing Pro photography ... Communities By user Designers Developers Educators and students Partners By resource Adobe Labs Adobe TV Forums Exchange ... Exchange Readers and Players Get Adobe Reader Get Flash Player Get Adobe AIR Get Shockwave Player ... Store offers You may not have everything you need to view certain sections of Adobe.com. Please see our site requirements Home Developer Center Macromedia Flash Developer Center Macromedia Flash Article Aaron E. Silvers www.24-7g.com When Macromedia released Flash MX, I couldn't wait to play with it. With its new drawing features and ability to create movie clips in ActionScript, I was all aglow with accomplishing "the impossible": making the classic arcade game Asteroids completely with code, just as Atari did it over 20 years ago. Within a surprisingly short amount of time I was able to accomplish this small feat. This article explains how you can do it too. I call this game "Asteroids MX." Although you should feel free to build the game no matter how comfortable you think you are with ActionScript, I do assume you're familiar with the fundamentals of programming. If you're unfamiliar with programming basics (arrays, functions, assigning values to variables) or some basic elements of ActionScript (dot-syntax, assigning

56. Mike Hall And Rudy Rucker's Asteroids Applet The asteroids run away from the bullets. They only see bullets that are currently getting closer to them, also the bullets have to be within a halfscreen http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/asteroids/asteroidsj1jar.html

Wait, Click on Game, Press S. S start game. Left/Right Arrows rotate. Up/Down Arrows thrust. Spacebar fire. B black or white. C collide. D details. G godmode . H hyperspace jump. M mute sound. P pause game. R round or square. W wrap or bounce. Wait a minute or three while the files load. Game is ready when it says "Ready to Start New Game." To Play: FIRST CLICK ON THE GAME AREA . . . and then press S. Main Controls. S starts game. Left/Right Arrows rotate the ship. (Hold down for continuous rotation.) Spacebar fires the ship's cannon. (Hold down for continous shooting. If the max number of bullets are active, firing again removes the oldest bullet). H jumps ship through hyperspace to a new location and makes it temporarily invulnerable. Other Controls. Up/Down Arrows thrust the ship forward and backwards (use sparingly). B toggles between a (default) black background and a white background. C toggles the collision feature of having the asteroids bounce off each other. G toggles on a "Godmode" which makes your ship invulnerable.

57. Norbert's Emulator Software: JAE - Asteroids The asteroids Emulator in Java by Norbert Kehrer (my first emu, 1998 or so ). The keys. Left Rotate left; Right Rotate right; Up Thrust; Ctrl Fire http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/JAsteroids.html

by Norbert Kehrer The Asteroids Emulator in Java by Norbert Kehrer (my first emu, 1998 or so :-) The keys: Left: Rotate left Right: Rotate right Up: Thrust Ctrl: Fire Space: Hyperspace : 1 Player start : 2 Players start : Insert coin slot 1 : Insert coin slot 2 : Insert coin slot 3 Keypad + : Increase frame skipping rate Keypad - : Decrease frame skipping rate

58. Asteroids asteroids are primoridal objects left over from the formation of the Solar System. http://www.wingmakers.co.nz/Asteroids.html

Asteroids are primoridal objects left over from the formation of the Solar System. Universe Solar System Sun Mercury Venus Earth ... Asteroids Planetary Moons Earth The Moon Jupiter Europa IO Ganymede Saturn Titan Tethys Enceladus Dione Extrasolar planets Mistori Solar System Marillian Solar System Cassidian Solar System Tristeka Solar System ... HD 62509 Solar System: New Star Systems HD 97633/Leota A Iota Draconis Pegasi System Beta Pictoris ... Gliese 876 Asteroids Mathilde Based on the composition of meteorites found on the Earth, most asteroids may be composed of three materials: mostly (92.8 percent) silicates (stone); metals (5.7 percent) iron and nickel; and the rest as a mix of the those materials and carbon-rich substances. Asteroids located closer to Mars and Earth that exhibit the same spectra are composed of rocky minerals ("stone") mixed with iron. In contrast, asteroids located farther away from the Sun on the Jupiter side of the Main Asteroid Belt are generally darker and redder, presumably because they were not well heated by the Sun and so have a composition more like the primordial, circum-Solar dust disk out of which the planets accreted about 4.5 billion years ago. Thus, the outer asteroids may more closely resemble the icy planetary bodies of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. 951 Gaspra The larger asteroids or protoplanets may have accumulated enough internal heat to "differentiate," whereby denser metals settled downwards (and perhaps even form metallic cores) and left lighter rocky ("stoney") residues in their outer layers. On some asteroids, internal heat may also have formed metamorphosized rocks, and volcanoes may even have erupted. Although no asteroid in the Main Belt grew big enough to hold on to an atmosphere, minerals found in some meteorites suggest that liquid water was often present.

59. Asteroids As an example of the economic value of space resources, let s consider the smallest known Mtype asteroid, the near-Earth asteroid known as 3554 Amun (two http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/index.html

Home About Us Join Donate ... ROADMAP THE NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID EROS IS 33 KILOMETERS LONG (FROM NASA NEAR MISSION) Asteroids If the dinosaurs had a space program, they would still be here. As an example of the economic value of space resources, let's consider the smallest known M-type asteroid, the near-Earth asteroid known as 3554 Amun (two kilometers in diameter): The iron and nickel in Amun have a market value of about $8,000 billion, the cobalt content adds another $6,000 billion, and the platinum-group metals add another $6,000 billion. Mining the Sky There are two things you need to know about asteroids: Asteroids can make us extinct (the threat). Asteroids can make us rich and provide homes for trillions of people (the promise). The Promise There are vast numbers of asteroids in near-Earth orbits, some of which are easier to access than the Moon. The potential mineral wealth of these asteroids is so great that huge profits could be made once we can start mining them for materials to be sold to markets on Earth. Like space solar power , this is one of the potential revenue sources for the large startup costs for the first space settlements.

60. Asteroids On 1998 March 11 the asteroid 94 Aurora was predicted to occult the star PPM 70703 as seen from parts of NW Europe. Denis Buczynski obtained this image http://www.theastronomer.org/minor_planets.html

Last Updated: 2008 Feb 12 21:20 UTC Source file: minor_planets.txt Contents TA details Homepage Latest updates Contents/index Our history ... Meeting reports Members' services E-circular archive On-line charts Sales Chart catalogue Special publications Back issues Videos ... Advertising rates Observations Aurora/NLC Comets Deep sky Eclipses/Transits ... Novae/Variables Links Vizie-R JPL Horizons IAU Central Bureau Heavens Above ... Further links Objects on this page are listed in numeric order for numbered objects and designation order for un-numbered objects. Submitting images: When submitting images to TA please send them as an e-mail attachment and please try to use the following filename format: object_yyyymmdd_hhmm_observer.jpg where object is the name of the object, yyyymmdd, hhmm is the date and time of the exposure (the hhmm field is optional) and observer is a unique observer code (say your initials). It is also a good idea to include details of the telescope, scale, orientation, camera, filter etc as annotation on the image. Appulse of 94 Aurora and PPM 70703 On 1998 March 11 the asteroid 94 Aurora was predicted to occult the star PPM 70703 as seen from parts of NW Europe. Denis Buczynski obtained this

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