Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites

Comets:

Definition by Wikipedia   The Age of Comets  

Catching a Comet Death on Camera    Comet Death Observed for First Time (July, 2011)   

Comet Lovejoy Plunges into the Sun and Survives

Evidence that comets could have seeded life on Earth

Asteroids:    

Definition by Wikipedia    After Chelyabinsk: European experts assess asteroid options

Asteroids: The New 'It Mission' for Space Exploration    NASA survey counts potentially hazardous asteroids

List of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs)    NASA/JPL's Near Earth Object Program   Busting Armageddon

Identification of origin of particles brought back by Hayabusa    NASA scientist figures way to weigh space rock

Asteroid nudged by sunlight: most precise measurement of Yarkovsky Effect 

Asteroid Served Up "Custom Orders" of Life's Ingredients       Trojan Asteroid Shares Orbit with Earth

Asteroid 2011 AGS: a reality check   Small asteroid to whiz past Earth safely

Stanford professor wants to find asteroids that threaten Earth 

NASA Telescope finds fewer Asteroids Near Earth    Explained: Near-miss asteroids  

Rosetta flyby uncovers the complex history of asteroid Lutetia 

NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets   Fireballs that Produce Meteorites

Soar Over Asteroid Vesta in 3-D   NASA's Swift Observatory Catches Asteroid Flyby

New NASA Dawn Visuals Show Vesta's 'Color Palette'   Is Vesta the "Smallest Terrestrial Planet?"

Dawn sees new surface features on giant asteroid     Vesta in Dawn's rear view mirror    

Experimental evidence that an asteroid impact led to the extinction of many species 65 million years ago

Near Earth Object media/risk communications working group report 

Villain in disguise: Jupiter's role in impacts on Earth   Nukes to save the Earth

Defending planet Earth: Near-Earth object surveys and hazard mitigation strategies

Engineers set their sights on asteroid deflection     Near Earth Asteroids

UCLA space scientists find ways to monitor elusive collisions in space

Meteorites:

Definition by Wikipedia

Meteorites: toolkits for creating life on Earth    Meteorite from Mars fell in Morocco: scientists

Meteorites reveal warm water existed on Mars   Studying meteorites may reveal Mars' secrets of life

NASA Ames helps search for and study of Sutter's Mill meteorites

Rare meteorites created in violent celestial collision    Russian meteor million of years old

 

Discovery of probably Tunguska meteorites at the bottom of Khushmo river's shoal