The Fly-Eye Telescope is an innovative project of ESA‘s SSA-NEO Segment that will focus on survey and follow-up of NEOs. Another important milestone on the way to build the telescope was achieved: from 30 July to 1 August ESA attended the acceptance test of the equatorial mount at its production site in Verona, Italy.

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

The Spacewatch project, located in Arizona, is probably the oldest of the asteroid survey still active today. They were the dominant discoverers of new asteroids in the ‘gos, and the pioneers of using CCDs to find new NEOs.

Current NEO statistics About 4% of the known NEO population is in the risk list. This value has remained roughly constant over the past years even if the discovery rate has increased.