Australian Groups
- Australian Spaceguard Survey
- The Mars Society of Australia has a new website.
- Canberra Planetarium - drop in during your visit to Canberra!
- Grove Creek Observatory astronomy tours in central New South Wales - so clear the stars stop twinkling! (if you are planning a visit to Australia consider contacting them)
- Koolang Astronomical Observatory - about 90km North West of Sydney, near the Hunter Valley.
- Astronomical Society of Australia - many links
- Astronomical Society of Tasmania
- National Space Society of Australia
- Melbourne Space Frontier Society
- Star Class - learning astronomy
- Astrobiology Australasia
- Sydney Observatory - The Rocks.
- TelescopeMaking.com - resources for astronomers.
- Astronomy
Online - comprehensive store with plenty of tips for amateurs. (sorry - broken URL)
- Starlore - Adelaide
- IceInSpace is a community website dedicated to amateur astronomers in Australia and New Zealand.
- Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.
International Groups
- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Planetary Sciences of Italy
- The Mars Society - its goal is Humans to Mars within a decade.
- Comprehensive lists of Astronomy Meetings compiled by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
- Journal of the International Academy of Astronautics how to get there! (contents listing)
- Space Frontier Foundation
- THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY
- The
Space-settlers Society. (sorry - broken URL)
- StarSeeker.org
- Planetary Society India (not affiliated with TPS)
Space Agency Media Pages (courtesy of CNN)
- Canadian Space Agency
- European Space Agency
- Italian Space Agency
- NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- NASA's Johnson Space Center
- NASA's Kennedy Space Center
- NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
- NASA Headquarters
- National Space Development Agency of Japan
- Russian Space Agency
Research
- SUBARU Telescope - the world's largest infra-red telescope being built in Hawaii by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. One of its main purposes is to find planets near surrounding stars.
- Planetary Science Research Discoveries , Hawaii University - a smorgasbord of research items
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies Popular Science Contents - researchers present one page summaries of their findings on a range of topics.
- Brown University PLANETARY GEOSCIENCES GROUP - dozens of research papers on Mars, Venus, Europa, Earth and the Moon.
- Proceedings of the 30th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference are available in interactive PDF format from the Lunar & Planetary Institute. The LPI website has plenty of other information about planetary science.
- Astronomy links - Miami University
- NASA's planetary science abstract database - huge number of scientific papers, including full copies of older papers. Once you find an interesting article try the "related articles" search system.
- NASA HQ Library Topics of Interest - see what resources the NASA bosses have available.
- Planetary Science Research Institute - UK
- The Planetary Web - University College, London. Planetary Science Centre.
- Anthropology Resources.
- Astrobiology Journal.
- Sunheight.com -
location of astronomical objects
Pictures and other resources (latest posting at the bottom)
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What a great sight for the lunar explorers returning
to the Command Module (top left).
(scene from a NASA movie).
- NASA/JPL Photo Library - with a great searching system. See also NASA's image search engine
- Views of the Solar System - a superb library of images, animations and movies of the solar system.
- Demonstration of hammer and feather dropped in vacuum > > > >
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