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FMO Resources
Links to external pages with resources for our members. Note: the FMO Mailing List Administrator is not responsible for the content of these links nor benefits from including them
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Discoveries & follow up:
MPC's NEO Confirmation Page (NEOCP). Spacewatch discoveries have code SWxxxx
Latest Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (MPEC's)
MPC list of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA's)
MPC list of All known NEO's
MPC list of Future Close Approaches
Minor Planet Center (MPC)
A/CC's Consolidated Risk Pages
News & scientific reading:
Asteroid/Comet Connection news on asteroids & comets
NASA-Astrophysics Data System (ADS) on-line article database
Orbits & ephemerides:
JPL HORIZONS dynamic ephemerid service
Software:
Marco Langbroek's HtoSize DOS executable for estimating asteroid diameters from H
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asquale Tricarico's ORSA freeware orbit integration softwareBill Gray's (Project Pluto) freeware FindOrb orbit propagation software
Herbert Raab's Astrometrica astrometric shareware
Mozilla Firefox open source web-browser (safer and better than IE!)
Mozilla Thunderbird open source e-mail client (safer and better than Outlook!)
Download Quicktime Plugin to make SW music alarm work in Firefox: select the version without iPod!
Dimension 4 software to auto-synchronize your pc clock when connected to the internet
Other:
Skymorph image archive (NEAT)
Guide to using skyMorph for recovery/precovery (including .cfg files for Astrometrica)
Stu Megan's FMO Chess portal
Stu Megan's http://www.stumegan.net games portal (for when the Spacewatch telescope is closed...)