Asteroid Sites

Volumetrically Challenged Planets

"Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral"- Darth Vader

As part of my graduate studies, I've observed over... well... quite a few asteroids. I've been a part of a number of conference abstracts (coming here soon!), and been first author on two papers. Their abstracts can be found below:

3-Micron Spectrophotometric Survey of M and E-class Asteroids by Rivkin, Howell, Britt, Lebofsky, Nolan and Branston in Icarus, 1995.
Infrared Spectrophotometry of the NEAR Flyby Target 253 Mathilde by Rivkin, Clark, Britt and Lebofsky in Icarus, 1997.

And now, for the usual handy links!

NEAR flies by Mathilde!
Part of `Nine Planets'
Ida (part of `Nine Planets')
Gaspra (part of `Nine Planets')
LANL asteroid page
ASU asteroid page
JPL Small bodies page
Smithsonian RPIF page
Atari 2600 Asteroids instructions
NASA National Space Science Data Center page
Planetary Data System On-Line Asteroid Data including lots of stuff.
HST Vesta movie!

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