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A Planet Pursuit
Pictures, facts and general information on the nine planets.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~aidanbarry/planetpursuit/
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Astromaterials Curation
Features Moon rocks, Mars meteorites, and space exposed materials at NASA's curation office.
http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/
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Astronomy 161: The Solar System
Overview with historical background and basic astronomy concepts, details about planets, satellites, asteroids, comets and meteors.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/
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Astronomy Today - Solar System
Fairly detailed information about our sun and its planets.
http://www.astronomytoday.com/astronomy/solarsystem.html
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BBCi Space: Solar System
3D tour including videos with audio and text information on the Sun and the bodies orbiting around it. (Shockwave and Realplayer required)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/index.shtml
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Computing Planetary Positions
A detailed online tutorial on how to compute planetary locations using math formulas.
http://stjarnhimlen.se/comp/ppcomp.html
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Endless Boundaries
Information on the Sun, planets and moons.
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/milkyway/1000
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Exploring the Planets
Sponsored by the National Air and Space Museum, contains many interesting facts about the planets, pictures, comparisons and a section dedicated to spacecraft.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/
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Free Software for Planetary Science
Image processing browers for Mariner 6, 7, 9, 10, Venera 15/16, and Viking Orbiter.
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html
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