Small Bodies Orbiting the Sun
Dr. Mitrović's Lecture Clips (audio + video, mp4)
Dr. Mitrović's Lecture Notes (pdf)
Additional Sources of Information
- Overview: P. Watson, Carleton University
- Meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites: N. Strobel, Bakersfield College; Yost and Daunt, University of Tennessee; Exploding meteor over Russia injures 1100 (CBC, 13 February 2013); February 15, 2013: Exploding meteor over Russia (CBC); Visualizing the cosmic streams that spew meteor showers, New York Times, 2017
- Asteroids: N. Strobel, Bakersfield College; Yost and Daunt, University of Tennessee; Asteroid has record close approach to Earth (BBC); Asteroid and comet watch (NASA); Earth's mysterious "second moon" and its odd orbit (geek.com); Flight over DwarfPlanet Ceres (NASA); Chicxulub impact visualization (Produced by Radek Michalik and David Dolak in collaboration with the Science Institute at Chicago's Columbia College); Chicxulub Tsunami (a physics-based computer simulation of the tsunami generated by he impact of the Chicxulub asteroid, YouTube); Large Asteroid Impact Simulation (Discovery Channel); Asteroid set for record near-miss (BBC); Ingredients for life found on Ceres, M. Koren, The Atlantic
- Pluto, plutoids, and beyond: NASA; M. Brown, California Institute of Technology
- Comets: NASA; Yost and Daunt, University of Tennessee; Asteroid and comet watch (NASA); Plan of landing on the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA); Reconstuction of Philae's flight across the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014 (ESA)
- Kuiper belt and Oort cloud: NASA
- Giant impacts: N. Strobel, Bakersfield College
- Extraterrestrial dust on Earth: W.J. Broad, New York Times
- Summary: Cornell University
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