Asteroid Watch
Small-Body DataBase for info on Near-Earth Objects
(Above: mapping of the positions of known near-Earth objects (NEOs) at points in time over the past 20 years.)1
A Database is an organized collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system. (a library).
The Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) is humanity’s leading center for exploring where humans cannot yet reach. JPL spacecraft have flown to every planet and the Sun in a quest to understand our place in the universe, and to search for the possibility of life beyond Earth. JPL missions honor the relentless pursuit of the explorer: Voyager, Curiosity, Cassini, Galileo. It is managed by CalTech for NASA.
The Jet Propulsion Lab hosts the Small-Body DataBase (SBDB)2at the Center for Near-Earth Objects. You can search it.
Coe College has an Asteroid Lab to understand the main properties of the asteroid belt, and how astronomers can detect asteroids using visual methods.
(Thanks Bill Heath)
Jet Propulsion Lab. Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. (2018)Twenty Years of Tracking Near-Earth Objects.
JPL Small-Body Database Search Engine: Use this search engine to generate custom tables of orbital and/or physical parameters for all asteroids and comets (or a specified sub-set) in our small-body database.
You're welcome. Great article.
This is the book I mentioned. I read this when I was in my 20s:
The Eternal Man: Ancient Aliens and Human Evolution Paperback – January 20, 2017
by Jacques Bergier (Author), Louis Pauwels (Author)
Are we older and wiser than we know? Why must humanity and its history necessarily be young? Why do we impose this ideological limitation, when there is so much evidence for mankind's perpetual recurrence? Is there any proof that any cultures are irrevocably mortal?
There are cultures that apparently flowered for thousands of years. Some of the cultures that we call primitive have already existed for so long that they seem to have no beginning and no end. Could they actually be immortal?
Might not the truth be that during past ages, man has often tried to climb the rungs of the ladder that lead to a high immortal culture, but has slipped and fallen? Perhaps we are even now in the process of building a culture that will know immortality on Earth and in heaven.
Perhaps within the cynical, doom-ridden attitudes fashionable today lie the seeds of imagination needed to see the possibilities of a "plastic" reality, where photons can - through observation - bend to our collective will.
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