The importance of NEA detection during close approaches
The current ratio of detected vs foreseen approaches is around 50-fold
News Archive
Meerkat Asteroid Guard 2.0 Released
Major software upgrade introduces performance improvements, new features, and a modernized architecture.
EU-ESA Workshop on Astrometric and Radar Observations of NEOs
Event to be held at ESRIN (Italy) on 6-8 October 2025
Aegis version 5: Faster, more resilient, and ready for the next generation of asteroid data
Introducing Aegis version 5, the new ESA operational software for asteroid orbit determination and impact monitoring.
ESA’s Planetary Defence Office is keeping a very close eye on 2024 YR4
2024 YR4 has scored the highest Torino Scale in the last 20 years
NEOCC VESPA service now available
Providing orbital data through VO protocols.
EU-ESA Workshop on Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects
Event to be held at ESOC (Germany) on 11-13 November 2024
PDO activities on Salsa reentry
NEO techniques applied to optical tracking of satellites
NEOCC Image Archive reaches milestone: 1 million images and growing!
NEOCC Image Archive reaches milestone
2024 LH1, the second closest close approach
What can we learn from close approachers?
The new Synodic Orbit Visualisation Tool for NEOs
NEOCC’s NEO Toolkit is enhanced with the SOVT
The first of (hopefully) many
ESA’s TBT2 survey telescope discovers its first Near Earth Asteroid
NEOCC provides up-to-date determinations of the Yarkovsky effect
An automated procedure for Yarkovsky effect determination developed by NEOCC
A new tiny impactor observed until shadow entrance
The Planetary Defence community has detected the eighth asteroid impactor
The great value of a big eye in the night sky
The GTC telescope helps in largely decreasing the threat of 2023 TB2.
A significant number of large near-Earth asteroids will have close approaches over the next few years
Several mission opportunities to close-approach asteroids up to 2040
NEOCC turns 10
ESA’s NEO Coordination Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary
New imminent impactor found by European astronomer
The atmospheric impact of this 1-metre object has been observed as a fireball from UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands
NEOCC orbit determination and impact monitoring software update
Aegis, a more performant and precise OD/IM software
Sixth meteoroid detected prior to impact
The object produced a bright fireball over the Great Lakes area
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