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Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:34 UTC

ESA’s Planetary Defence Office (PDO) has participated with several presentations at the 6th IAA Planetary Defense Conference held in College Park, near Washington, between 29 April and 3 May.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:32 UTC

A newly-established collaboration between our team and the Instituto de AstrofĂ­sica de Canarias (IAC) led to the first-ever observation of an NEA with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:29 UTC

The number of known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) reached the round total of 20 000 this week. This family of asteroids whose orbit brings them close to Earth is steadily growing at a pace of roughly...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:26 UTC

A few months ago a long thin tail was noticed on main belt asteroid (6478) Gault. An international collaboration led by scientists of the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii...

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Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:20 UTC

Andrea Milani, professor of mathematics at Pisa University, passed away unexpectedly last Wednesday while cycling near Pisa. With his deep knowledge and understanding on the Solar System dynamics,...

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Date/Time: 2019-06-07 11:35 UTC

A potentially hazardous asteroid once found but then lost has been rediscovered and its orbit confirmed by a determined amateur astronomer working with ESA's space hazards programme. The...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 11:25 UTC

During the last observing run with the ESA 1-m telesope on Tenerife (the OGS = Optical Ground Station) the SSA-NEO programme successfully recovered three 'lost' NEOs. In addition, one new NEO was...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 11:21 UTC

A little-known asteroid will skim past Earth on 15 February, passing just 28 000 km from our planet. The 50 m-diameter chunk of space rock was discovered last year by ESA-sponsored amateur...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 11:37 UTC

While the sky becomes more and more continuously scanned by ground and space-based NEO surveys, discovering objects in unusual orbital configurations represents the new frontier. Their dynamics...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 15:12 UTC

Last month, ESA's near-Earth asteroid coordination centre triggered a series of European observations that confirmed an unknown object was, in fact, of human origin. The confirmation was the...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 15:08 UTC

Soon after having been spotted in the sky on 8 October 2013 from the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (Ukraine), asteroid 2013TV135 topped the Risk Page. Being a relatively large object (500 m in...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 15:06 UTC

On 8 November 2013 asteroid 2013 TV135 has been removed from the Risk Page. The non-zero impact probability spotted by monitoring systems just after its discovery (on 8 October 2013) dropped...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 15:05 UTC

If an asteroid is discovered which could come very close to Earth, it is important to coordinate observational activities quickly to better know its precise flyby distance.This is illustrated by...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 15:01 UTC

The first recovery campaign carried out by the ESA NEO Coordination Centre in coordination with ESO, using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) (VLT telescopes on the Paranal mountain in Chile (credit:...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 08:46 UTC

A team of European astronomers has found a previously unknown comet, detected as a tiny blob of light orbiting our Sun deep in the Solar System.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 09:50 UTC

After discussing what to do to ensure that an important NEO is adequately monitored (see "news archive"), we will now present a possible strategy to improve the orbit of old objects, that have not...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 09:33 UTC

The observational component of NEO science is an extremely important part of the impact mitigation effort, since observations are the input data for all the computational models used to predict...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 14:53 UTC

The ESA Optical Ground Station has quickly become a major asset for the NEO Coordination Centre, thanks to the many nights devoted to observing asteroids. It is located at an altitude of 2400 m on...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 09:36 UTC

Spotting Earth-threatening asteroids is tough partly because the sky is so big. But insects offer an answer, since they figured out long ago how to look in many directions at once.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 13:24 UTC

Each year, astronomers worldwide discover over 1000 new asteroids or other space rocks that could strike our planet. And if one is spotted heading towards Earth, experts working in ESA and national...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 13:21 UTC

One of the major goals of the ESA NEO Coordination Centre is to focus observations on objects with non-zero impact probabilities. When an asteroid quickly becomes very faint just after discovery...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 13:15 UTC

An object discovered on 3 October 2015, temporarily designated WT1190F by the observers, will enter the Earth's atmosphere on 13 November. It was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-05 12:11 UTC

​​​​​​The impact of WT1190F in the Indian Ocean on 13 November (see our news item on 22 October) provided an excellent opportunity to simulate the observational sequence that needs to be triggered...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-05 12:57 UTC

Asteroid 2016 RB1 has hit the news because of a peculiar close passage on 7 September 2016 at 19:20 CEST. About the size of a cottage, the asteroid flew past our planet at an altitude of 34000 km,...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-05 14:16 UTC

The number of known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) has just surpassed the threshold of 15000. That is a 50% increase over the number known in 2013, when we posted a similar news item on our portal for...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-05 14:48 UTC

The word "precovery" has entered the astronomical jargon rather recently but it quickly grew in popularity among asteroid hunters. It refers to the finding of an archival observation of an object...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 13:30 UTC

NELIOTA is an activity initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA), which was recently launched at the National Observatory of Athens. The project aims to count and characterise the number and...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 09:31 UTC

An international campaign has revealed that an asteroid will come within 44 000 km of our planet in October, providing a rare opportunity for intensive studies. Astronomers recently spotted...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 10:02 UTC

As part of an international observing campaign, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been imaged during our normal monthly observing run on 16 September with the OGS telescope in Tenerife. In the attached...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 10:19 UTC

A few weeks ago the Pan-STARRS survey discovered a new NEO, temporarily identified as P10G8tt and then formally designated 2018 AM12. Follow-up observations over the next few days allowed the...