EU-ESA Workshop on NEO Imminent Impactors Warning Coordination
Event to be held at ESOC (Germany) on 12-14 December 2022
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The new Orbit Visualisation Tool: displaying NEO orbits in 3D
This new astronomical tool gives the user the possibility to visualise NEO orbits and asteroids collections in full detail within a highly configurable 3D environment
ESA observes the outcome of the impact of DART on Dimorphos
NEOCC has managed a network of observatories to observe the result of the interplanetary collision
NEOCC FITS Image Archive now accessible through the SSOIS
The image archive with capabilities to search and download selected image data
Asteroid 2021 QM1 removed from NEOCC’s risk list pole position
Riskiest asteroid in the last months removed from the risk list
Impact threat analysis update completed for 1950 DA
Large NEA steadily going out of the long-term risk list
Automated data access to ESA's NEOCC portal
NEOCC portal provides automated access to most of its data
Impact monitoring for Apophis computed including the Yarkovsky effect
A revision of the Apophis impact hazard assessment
Impact Monitoring information now computed by NEOCC
The full orbit determination and impact monitoring computations being performed at our premises
An unexpected very close approach
The fly-by of 2020 HS7 asteroid
The ZTF Survey scores the asteroid with the smallest aphelion distance
The year has just started, and we already have a very interesting discovery of a new and so far unique asteroid.
The power of precoveries
If you check our current risk list, you will notice that a significant number of objects in the top positions are extremely “old”, discovered in the first decade of the century.
A would-be interstellar new object currently visiting the Solar System
Over the past week, the Near-Earth Object (NEO) community in general, and ESA’s NEO Coordination Centre (NEOCC) in particular, have been involved in an interesting example of the process of discovering a new and exceptional object.
2006 QV89 direct observations allow its complete removal from the risk list
One month ago, NEOCC team ruled out the possibility that asteroid 2006 QV89 would impact the Earth this September by making a “non-detection”, i.e. observing the area of the sky where the asteroid would appear if it were on a collision course with our planet - and not detecting it.
Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for more eyes in the sky
On 25 July, an asteroid the size of a football field flew by Earth, coming within 65 000 km of our planet’s surface during its closest approach – about one fifth of the distance to the Moon.
Yarkovsky effect detection and updated impact hazard assessment for (410777) 2009 FD
A new paper by Alessio Del Vigna and collaborators, published this week in the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, significantly revised the chances of impact of (410777) 2009 FD.
ESA and ESO rule out the threat of 2006 QV89 for this September
Asteroid 2006 QV89, a small object 20 to 50 meters in diameter, has been in the news lately, because of a very small 1-in-7000 chance of impact with the Earth on 9 September 2019.
Hera: ESA’s Planetary Defence mission
Hera will show us things we have never seen before. Astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian May tells in the next video the story of the ESA mission that would be humanity's first-ever spacecraft to visit a double asteroid
Asteroid Day approaching!
For the fifth year, Asteroid Day is going to be celebrated worldwide on 30 June.
ESA contributes to Gault's activity identification
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 published a paper today explaining the mechanism that led to this sudden onset of activity.
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