A revision of the Apophis impact hazard assessment

January 2021 Newsletter

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...

Possible extension for the Hayabusa2 mission

December 2020 Newsletter

The closest non-impacting asteroid

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

November 2020 Newsletter

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...

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:...

October 2020 Newsletter

Asteroid 2020 SW

Restricted Information

September 2020 Newsletter

The fly-by of 2020 QG asteroid

August 2020 Newsletter

Asteroid 2020OY4

ABC ABC

July 2020 Newsletter

Asteroid 52768 1998OR2

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

June 2020 Newsletter

May 2020 Newsletter

April 2020 Newsletter

March 2020 Newsletter

February 2020 Newsletter

The fly-by of 2020 JJ asteroid

The fly-by of 2020 HS7 asteroid

Close Approach Fact Sheet for asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2

NEO Coordination Centre's observing campaign to track the fly-by of BepiColombo

ESA's NELIOTA project detects the flash of light produced when an asteroid collides energetically with the lunar surface and recently recorded its 100th impact.

Planetary Defence office we took the opportunity of the Solar Orbiter launch to perform an observational exercise, attempting to image the departing spacecraft with a ground based optical telescope.

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