The month ofApril saw two very important international meetings on NEOs taking place at the ESA ESRIN establishment in Frascati. On g—10 April the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) met for two days for their third regular meeting.

A small size asteroid will approach the Earth on 12 October 2017. The expected minimum distance is just above the geostationary ring, thus being a good target for radar observations.

Close approach fact sheet for asteroid 2010WC9. A small asteroid impacted the Earth on 15 May 2018.

The asteroid ground track displayed below represents the movement of the sub-asteroid point over the Earth, from the time of the first observation to its approach to the Southern part of Africa, just before its impact.