Last update: 2024-08-02 14:00 UTC Exercise     Exercise    Exercise This document does not describe a real asteroid impact threat. The information here is fictional and provided only to support...

NEOCC Image Archive reaches milestone

The ESA NEO Coordination Centre (NEOCC) is the operational centre of ESA’s Planetary Defence Office (PDO) within the Space Safety Programme (S2P). It is located at ESA's establishment ESRIN...

NEO techniques applied to optical tracking of satellites

Event to be held at ESOC (Germany) on 11-13 November 2024

NEOCC has managed a network of observatories to observe the result of the interplanetary collision

The first table includes all objects for which a non-zero impact probability has been computed, considering only impacts in the next 100 years. The second table, called Special Risk List, includes...

The Schmidt telescope of the Centro Astronómico Hispano en Andalucía (CAHA Schmidt) was first installed in 1955 at the Hamburg Observatory in Germany, and subsequently moved to the Calar Alto...

Introduction The European Space Agency (herein the “Agency” or “ESA”) is an intergovernmental organisation established by its Convention opened for signature in Paris on 30 May 1975 having its...

Providing orbital data through VO protocols.

Summary 2023 CX1 was the seventh object to be detected before impacting the Earth. The meteoroid was discovered at Konkoly Observatory (Hungary) on 12 February 2023 and impacted the atmosphere over...

Summary 2022 WJ1 was the sixth impactor discovered while still outside Earth's atmosphere. Found by the Mt. Lemmon station of the Catalina Sky Survey, it impacted Earth near the Great Lakes region...

Summary 2022 EB5 was the fifth object to be detected before impacting the Earth. The meteoroid was discovered at Konkoly Observatory (Hungary) on 11 March 2022 and impacted the atmosphere over the...