The Nine Planets web site; see the section on Asteroids.

"A New Century for Asteroids" by Richard P. Binzel, Sky & Telescope, July 2001.

IAU Minor Planet Center : much useful information can be found here.

MPC Asteroid Light Curve Database

Why Study Asteroids? A short article by Donald Yeomans.

"Ida and Company" by J.K.Beatty, Sky & Telescope, January 1995, p20.

The book, "The System of Minor Planets" by Gunter Roth. (copy available in the Astrolab).

Very accurate positions can be found at JPL's HORIZONS System via their Ephemeris Generator. Note the different types of positions listed, i.e. ICRF/J2000.0 and apparent.

Check out NASA's Orbit Viewer applet

Chapter 8 of "The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing" by Richard Berry and James Burnell is an excellent introduction to photometry. This book also contains very good general information about the reduction of CCD data. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library

Christian Buil's CCD Astronomy is also another excellent book. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library

Kissing in the Kuiper Belt

Shapes and rotational properties of thirty asteroids from photometric data

Photometry and Spin Rate Distribution of Small-Sized Main Belt Asteroids

Local software for the initial data reduction