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2018WV1

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-20 10:20 UTC

Placeholder article about most recent CAFS.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 10:58 UTC

'Oumuamua, an object from another star system that made a brief appearance in our skies turns out to be a tiny interstellar comet. Read more: https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science

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POLICY

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2020-07-06 13:33 UTC

ABC ABC

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2020-07-16 06:46 UTC

Close Approach Fact Sheet for asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2020-01-21 13:45 UTC

The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released the July newsletter.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2020-09-10 12:20 UTC

Restricted Information

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-20 23:28 UTC

Access to, and use of, this ESA website constitutes acceptance of the following general terms and conditions. It is also required that you are aware and agree to the following privacy policy.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2020-07-09 15:47 UTC

Last update: 2020-12-04 10:00 UTC On this page, the NEOCC provides problems (we call them 'riddles') related to the observation of NEOs, their dynamics and their characterisation. In irregular...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-09-09 06:56 UTC

It is possible to visualise the orbits of all asteroids in our database by entering their name, provisional designation or catalogue number. The position along the orbit is computed at regular time...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-05 09:00 UTC

Asteroid and Comet Trajectory Propagator (NEOPROP) In 2012, Astos Solutions developed for ESA a new orbital propagator algorithm in order to assess the potential risk of impact of an NEO. The...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-08-13 12:42 UTC

The first part of the Discovery Statistics page

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-04 14:05 UTC

It is widely acknowledged that NEO science is intriguing and often goes against common sense. A clear understanding of the meaning and importance of any text concerning near-Earth objects, their...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-08-08 09:27 UTC

The word NEO stands for near-Earth object, indicating a small body of the Solar System which can come into the Earth’s neighbourhood. A broad classification of NEOs distinguishes NECs (near-Earth...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-08-08 09:28 UTC

Even if an asteroid misses the Earth, it can come back and hit our planet in a subsequent "return". Whether this happens or not, depends on whether the object passes through well-defined regions in...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-08-08 09:29 UTC

The first NEA, (433) Eros, was discovered by Gustav Witt from the Urania Sternwarte Berlin and independently by Auguste Charlois from the Observatoire de Nice, on 13 August 1898. The discovery...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-08-08 09:30 UTC

SSA is the acronym of ESA's "Space Situational Awareness" programme, which was the precursor to the current Space Safety Programme. SSA ran between 2009 and 2019. More info at:...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-08-08 09:31 UTC

The Torino scale is a function of the impact energy and probability of the event, with no reference to the time of impact. In the Palermo scale, the risk posed by a possible impactor is compared to...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2020-10-16 07:23 UTC

S2P is the acronym for ESA's "Space Safety Programme”. Its aim is "the protection of our planet, humanity and assets in space and on Earth from dangers originating in space". More info at:...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2021-02-04 15:55 UTC

PDO is the acronym of ESA’s Planetary Defence Office within its Space Safety programme (S2P). The goals of the Office are to: 1) be aware of the current and future position of near-Earth objects...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-04 14:00 UTC

The possibility of browsing through the largest possible set of astronomical images and download them for inspection is extremely useful in order to find possible unidentified detections of NEOs or...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 11:29 UTC

In the last observing slot at ESA's 1-m telescope on Tenerife, the previously 'lost' object 2009 XZ1 has been recovered. E. Schwab (Germany) has planned and analyzed the observations. The Minor...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2021-01-22 11:11 UTC

A revision of the Apophis impact hazard assessment

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2020-11-23 10:10 UTC

The full orbit determination and impact monitoring computations being performed at our premises

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2020-01-21 14:02 UTC

The year has just started, and we already have a very interesting discovery of a new and so far unique asteroid.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 10:09 UTC

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.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 10:04 UTC

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...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 09:14 UTC

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.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 09:45 UTC

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...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 09:37 UTC

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.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 09:19 UTC

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.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 09:07 UTC

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...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 08:28 UTC

For the fifth year, Asteroid Day is going to be celebrated worldwide on 30 June.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:26 UTC

A few months ago a long thin tail was noticed on main belt asteroid (6478) Gault. An international collaboration led by scientists of the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:20 UTC

Andrea Milani, professor of mathematics at Pisa University, passed away unexpectedly last Wednesday while cycling near Pisa. With his deep knowledge and understanding on the Solar System dynamics,...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 11:25 UTC

During the last observing run with the ESA 1-m telesope on Tenerife (the OGS = Optical Ground Station) the SSA-NEO programme successfully recovered three 'lost' NEOs. In addition, one new NEO was...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 15:06 UTC

On 8 November 2013 asteroid 2013 TV135 has been removed from the Risk Page. The non-zero impact probability spotted by monitoring systems just after its discovery (on 8 October 2013) dropped...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 13:15 UTC

An object discovered on 3 October 2015, temporarily designated WT1190F by the observers, will enter the Earth's atmosphere on 13 November. It was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 10:02 UTC

As part of an international observing campaign, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been imaged during our normal monthly observing run on 16 September with the OGS telescope in Tenerife. In the attached...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 10:37 UTC

During the first month of 2018 two objects reached a Torino Scale level of 1, and attracted the attention of observers with the goal of collecting additional observations necessary to remove the...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-08-13 12:43 UTC

Additional information

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 10:12 UTC

On 19 October the Pan-STARRS telescope, one of the NASA-funded surveys dedicated to discovering new NEOs, found an object that proved to be extremely unique: for the first time, an asteroid...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2021-11-30 18:07 UTC

NEOCC portal provides automated access to most of its data

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-05-15 16:22 UTC

NEO Chronology Last update: 2021-11-01 06:00 UTC The updating of the NEO Chronology is currently on hold. Courtesy of Karel A. van der Hucht Last version 121.0 Download:.PDF For an explanation...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-03-29 14:23 UTC

Large NEA steadily going out of the long-term risk list

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-06-29 15:57 UTC

Riskiest asteroid in the last months removed from the risk list

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-06-30 08:55 UTC

The image archive with capabilities to search and download selected image data

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-09-07 11:47 UTC

2021 PDC Impact Excercise

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-09-07 12:02 UTC

Last update: 2021-04-28 14:30 UTC This webpage does not describe a real potential asteroid impact. The information on this page is fictional and provided only to support an emergency response...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-09-28 14:23 UTC

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

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-10-04 15:37 UTC

Event to be held at ESOC (Germany) on 12-14 December 2022

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-10-24 10:09 UTC

October marks the first decade of the NEOCC portal

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-11-22 15:29 UTC

The object produced a bright fireball over the Great Lakes area

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2022-12-20 11:35 UTC

Aegis, a more performant and precise OD/IM software

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Links

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-04 14:10 UTC

NEO Information Centres NEODyS - The Near-Earth Object Dynamic Site https://newton.spacedys.com/neodys/ AstDyS - The Asteroids Dynamic Site https://newton.spacedys.com/astdys/ The Minor Planet...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-05-02 10:50 UTC

Additional information

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-05-05 12:06 UTC

ESA’s expanding observational network forms the first pillar of its programme for planetary defence. Thanks to a number of telescopes either directly owned, funded or in scientific agreement with...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-04 14:11 UTC

Directly the PDO manager Richard Moissl Head of the Planetary Defence Office Space Safety Programme ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy richard.moissl[@]esa.int  

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-09-28 09:55 UTC

  The Image Archive search form allows to explore and find images collected during dedicated observation campaigns. The search filter is based on:   Observatory. IAU code and name of the...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-09-28 09:56 UTC

  The table in this page contains information about objects that were in the Risk List and were subsequently removed, because no virtual impactors within the next 100 years were found after a given...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-09-28 09:59 UTC

  The observation priority list is computed as described in the reference provided in the description paragraphs in the associated web page. The variables provided in the table are the following:  ...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-09-28 10:00 UTC

  The tables are accessible from the menu by the Fireballs section and the Observations section. In each section a list of all fireballs or observations present in the database are displayed.  ...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-09-28 09:58 UTC

  These tables contain close approaches of NEAs with the Earth within 0.05 au foreseen in the next year (Upcoming close approached to Earth), or that happened in the past 30 days (Recent close...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-09-28 09:58 UTC

  This table contains a list of NEAs that impacted Earth and were detected prior to their entry in the Earth’s atmosphere. This table can also be also automatically downloaded through HTTPS APIs,...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-09-11 07:11 UTC

The "API support" for the NEOCC web services is currently limited to some HTTPS GET requests with raw text-based responses. Note that the API is considered as experimental — pending funding...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-05-05 12:00 UTC

ESA's Test Bed Telescopes (TBT) are two twin telescopes built by ESA to test different observational activities in the optical detection of NEO’s and satellites or space debris. The two telescopes...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2024-03-19 09:38 UTC

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Date/Time: 2024-03-19 09:38 UTC

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Date/Time: 2024-03-19 09:39 UTC

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Date/Time: 2024-03-19 09:39 UTC

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Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2024-03-19 09:45 UTC

The Synodic Orbit Visualization Tool is an essential feature within the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Toolkit, designed to display Keplerian and perturbed orbits of NEOs in a rotating Sun-centered...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2024-03-19 09:46 UTC

The tools are briefly introduced in the ESA asteroid toolkit: how to guide. However, to learn more about some of the tools and how to use them effectively, please refer to the videos provided...

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-05-25 15:02 UTC

ESA’s NEO Coordination Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-10-30 16:07 UTC

Several mission opportunities to close-approach asteroids up to 2040

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2023-11-24 14:10 UTC

The GTC telescope helps in largely decreasing the threat of 2023 TB2.

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2024-01-22 17:10 UTC

The Planetary Defence community has detected the eighth asteroid impactor