LINKS TO INFORMATION ON ASTEROIDS & COMETS & NEOs http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v413/n6854/full/413369a0_fs.html Summary in Nature about reports from NEAR data after landing on Eros. http://near.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/iod/v7_2.html Images and data from the final descent of NEAR spacecraft to surface of asteroid Eros. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000226.html False-color image of crater structure off Yucatan peninsula, from asteroid hit 65 million years ago. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990901.html Radar image of a small asteroid that "narrowly" missed impacting Earth. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980712.html Image of an asteroid from Galileo spacecraft on its journey to Jupiter. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970701.html Large craters on an asteroid, from NEAR project. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010926.html Best image to date of a comet’s nucleus, from innovative Deep Space 1 spacecraft, powered by ion drive. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010922.html About ion drive of Deep Space 1, for those interested in propulsion. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000805.html Second best image of a cometary nucleus – Halley’s comet, from the Italian spacecraft Giotto. http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/index.html Go here to see what U.S. government is doing about impact hazards from near-earth-objects (NEOs). http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/671etcbs.asp Read a summary of a 2004 conference entirely about detecting and deflecting NEOs on an impact trajectory.  This article is an excellent status report of what the U.S. government funding has achieved as of this conference.  Emphasis is on finding an object early (10-15 years before impact), and on deflection methods - some of which are pretty wild!