1998 KY26 - recovering the target of the Hayabusa2 extended mission
Possible extension for the Hayabusa2 mission
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Record breaking close approach of asteroid 2020 VT4
The closest non-impacting asteroid
Impact Monitoring information now computed by NEOCC
The full orbit determination and impact monitoring computations being
performed at our premises
2020 QG, the closest close approach
The fly-by of 2020 QG asteroid
An even closer unexpected approach
The fly-by of 2020 JJ asteroid
An unexpected very close approach
The fly-by of 2020 HS7 asteroid
BepiColombo closely tracked from observatories on Earth during its fly-by
NEO Coordination Centre's observing campaign to track the fly-by of
BepiColombo
100th asteroid flash spotted on the Moon
ESA's NELIOTA project detects the flash of light produced when an asteroid
collides energetically with the lunar surface and recently recorded its
100th impact.
Planetary Defence Office observes an artificial NEO
Planetary Defence office we took the opportunity of the Solar Orbiter
launch to perform an observational exercise, attempting to image the
departing spacecraft with a ground based optical telescope.
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’s Planetary Defence Office actively participates at PDC 2019 in the Washington area
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.
The largest optical telescope started observing very faint NEOs in the Northern hemisphere
A newly-established collaboration between our team and the Instituto de
Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) led to the first-ever observation of an NEA
with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We targeted 2019 DS1, a
high-rated NEO in our risk list, when it was already as faint as magnitude
25.7.
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