AspireSpace Asteroid Web Pages
What are the AspireSpace asteroid web pages
Welcome to the AspireSpace Asteroid web pages. The
purpose of the AspireSpace asteroid pages are to provide an easily accesible
source of information on asteroids, and to provide links
to other asteroid web pages.
Why ?
Asteroids represent a rich source of natural
materials, which will be of great importance in
developing a solar system wide space infrastructure. By
making information available now, it is hoped that it
will allow people with an interest in exploring and
mining asteroids to have as much information at their
fingertips as possible, to bring about a faster pace of
change with regards to asteroid exploration.
One of the first steps is to determine the
Asteroid Composition, so that
asteroid sources of various minerals are known.
Near Earth Asteroids
- Apollo Class Asteroids
- 1566 Icarus - U-Class Asteroid.
- 1620 Geographos - This asteroid was due to be visted by the Clementine mission.
Unfortunately, due to a computer problem, the fly by had to
be aborted. (S-Class)
- 1862 Apollo (S-Class)
- 4769 Castalia
- 4179 Toutatis -
S-Class Asteroid.
- Near-Earth Asteroid
1995 CR
- Aten Class Asteroids
- Amor Class Asteroids
- The Kordylewski Clouds
Main Belt Asteroids
This section provides an introduction and an overview of the Main
Asteroid Belt, located between the orbits of the planets
Mars and Jupiter. details and links are provided to a number of
notable asteroids, such as the largest, and those which have been
imaged in any detail, by spacecraft or by Earth based systems.
- Introduction to Main Belt Asteroids
- 1 Ceres - The largest asteroid (C-Class)
- 2 Pallas - The second largest asteroid (U-Class)
- 3 Juno - The third asteroid to be discovered
(S-Class)
- 4 Vesta -
Images of Vesta, the third largest asteroid, and fourth to be
discovered, have recently (1995) been obtained by the Hubble
Space Telescope. ( U-Class)
- 5 Astraea
- 8 Flora
- 10 Hygiea
- 15 Eunomia
- 31 Euphrosyne
- 52 Europa
- 243 Ida
& Dactyl - Ida was imaged by the Galileo-Jupiter spacecraft in August 1993. During
the flyby, The Galileo spacecraft also discovered a small
satellite asteroid called Dactyl, orbiting Ida.
Ida is an S-Class Asteroid.
- 511 Davida
-
951 Gaspra
- The asteroid 951 Gaspra, was imaged by the
Galileo-Jupiter spacecraft in 1991. Gaspra is an S-Class
Asteroid.
- 3834
Zappafrank
- The Kirkwood Gaps
- The Trojan Asteroids
Asteroid Missions
This section details spacecraft missions planned, in progress, or
completed, which have asteroid encounters as at least part of their mission
World-wide Web based Asteroid Resources
Other asteroid web sources include the highly detailed SEDS
Asteroids Facts, the European Asteroid Research Node
(EARN), the
Asteroid Factsheet, and Unusual Minor
Planets
AspireSpace Project Outline
This page is maintained by Richard Osborne
<aspire-info@gbnet.net>