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
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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
Ten years of the NEOCC web portal
October marks the first decade of the NEOCC portal
EU-ESA Workshop on NEO Imminent Impactors Warning Coordination
Event to be held at ESOC (Germany) on 12-14 December 2022
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
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