Maps of neospace
near-earth-object space of the Solar System
The accessible vicinity of Earth, as we knew it on during 1996 - 1997.

These maps were first generated by Dr. Mark Sykes, augmented by Dr. Anthony Zuppero and Thomas K Larson (INL), and data provided by Prof. Pat Whitman (RIP) and Prof. John Matese, starting approximately 1996
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"near-Earth" comets and asteroids
nearly half of what you see are water objects of some kind
  • Jupiter family comets ("near-earth comets") as blue-ice diamonds, with orbit dots and names, and
  • near earth asteroids as red-dirt diamonds, without orbits or names
  • printable on 8.5 x 11 paper
  • link is full size   

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"near earth" asteroids and comets with dotted orbits
nearly half of what you see are water objects in some form
  • Jupiter family comets ("near earth comets") with comet names, black dotted orbits,
  • black-to-white diamonds represent dark hydrocarbons, dirt and ice and ,
  • near earth asteroids as red-dirt diamond dots and orange dotted orbits
  • link is hi resolution 3.7 megabytes
  • printable on 8.5 x 11 inch paper
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blue comet map of solar system
cropped, click for hi res picture

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blue comets and read nea map of solar system
uncropped, better color
click for hi res

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high contrast black comets, dark red near earth objects
high resolution color
click for hires

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hi resolution fire nea's and black comets
comets = black, near earth asteroids = fire red,
formatted for a page
click for first hi res pic
click here for another,370 kbyte version without page cropping


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