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
News Archive
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
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.
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