15%) Atens: 2,952 (7.9%) Comets: 123 (0.33%) Atiras: 34 (0.09%) A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest...
165 KB (16,539 words) - 06:04, 2 June 2025
hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and which is...
32 KB (1,786 words) - 20:58, 7 June 2025
DANEOPS, the DLR-Archenhold Near Earth Objects Precovery Survey, has been initiated to systematically search existing photographic plate archives for precovery...
441 bytes (39 words) - 01:07, 14 January 2021
program (Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey), started in 2001, is dedicated to the discovery and follow-up of near-Earth objects (NEOs), namely asteroids...
142 KB (584 words) - 10:53, 21 May 2024
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded...
12 KB (1,171 words) - 22:30, 19 June 2025
Torino scale (redirect from Most dangerous near earth objects)
scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets. It is intended as a communication...
22 KB (1,724 words) - 12:12, 9 June 2025
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, surveying the sky for near-Earth objects. NEAT was conducted...
9 KB (563 words) - 20:53, 7 June 2025
Atira asteroid (redirect from Interior-Earth object)
asteroids, also known as interior-Earth objects (IEOs), are Near-Earth objects whose orbits are entirely confined within Earth's orbit; that is, their orbit...
24 KB (1,771 words) - 22:02, 3 April 2025
NEO Surveyor (redirect from Near earth object camera)
NEO Surveyor, formerly called Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), then NEO Surveillance Mission, is a planned space-based infrared telescope designed to...
30 KB (2,862 words) - 15:13, 12 May 2025
Purple Mountain Observatory (redirect from Purple Mountain Observatory Near-Earth Object Survey Program)
2456 Palamedes, and the eponymous 3494 Purple Mountain. The Chinese Near-Earth Object Survey (CNEOS), based at the Xuyi Station (D29) in Xuyi, Jiangsu,...
67 KB (620 words) - 20:59, 7 June 2025
Technology's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid discoveries from...
10 KB (869 words) - 20:45, 7 June 2025
Asteroid impact avoidance (redirect from Near Earth asteroid defense)
avoidance encompasses the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted, preventing destructive...
125 KB (13,773 words) - 15:36, 31 May 2025
number of smaller objects of historical or scientific interest, such as comets and near-Earth objects. Many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) have been discovered;...
258 KB (10,967 words) - 05:25, 23 June 2025
The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL's) facility for computing asteroid and comet orbits and their...
2 KB (229 words) - 07:31, 5 April 2025
asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2025. Near-Earth object detection technology began to improve around 1998, so objects being detected as of 2004 could...
89 KB (2,926 words) - 17:19, 28 May 2025
2024 MK (category Near-Earth objects in 2024)
2024 MK is a S-type near-Earth object with a diameter around 150 meters that flew past Earth on June 29, 2024. It was discovered by ATLAS South Africa...
5 KB (430 words) - 11:28, 18 May 2025
This is a list of possibly hazardous near-Earth objects with Torino scale rankings that are non-zero or that were, at one time, non-zero. The Torino scale...
68 KB (7,305 words) - 15:31, 21 May 2025
scale used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of a near-Earth object (NEO). It combines two types of data—probability of impact and estimated...
22 KB (2,228 words) - 19:18, 18 June 2025
The Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC) is the main centre of the Planetary Defence Office of the European Space Agency (ESA). The NEOCC, which...
3 KB (232 words) - 17:40, 10 February 2025
Spaceguard (redirect from Near-Earth Object Program)
discover, catalogue, and study near-Earth objects (NEO), especially those that may impact Earth (potentially hazardous objects). Asteroids are discovered...
15 KB (1,637 words) - 00:54, 27 January 2025
original USA Spaceguard mandate was extended by the George E. Brown, Jr. Near-Earth Object Survey Act, which calls for NASA to detect 90% of NEOs with diameters...
223 KB (20,684 words) - 08:16, 21 June 2025
2024 PT5 (category Near-Earth objects in 2024)
2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 11 meters (36 ft) in diameter discovered by ATLAS South Africa, Sutherland on 7 August 2024, the day before approaching...
13 KB (949 words) - 12:10, 4 May 2025
2015 ME131 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
a Near-Earth object (NEO). It is an Atira asteroid, which is by far the smallest group of near-Earth objects. This makes it an interior-Earth object (IEO)...
6 KB (420 words) - 20:10, 1 February 2025
Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies; Space Studies Board; National Research Council (21 June 2010). Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth...
3 KB (263 words) - 20:45, 6 October 2023
Impact event (redirect from Earth impacts)
or meteoroids and have minimal effect. When large objects impact terrestrial planets such as the Earth, there can be significant physical and biospheric...
117 KB (12,843 words) - 17:20, 19 June 2025
1991 VG (category Near-Earth objects in 1991)
1991 VG is a very small near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 5–12 meters (16–39 feet) in diameter. It was first observed by American astronomer...
14 KB (1,301 words) - 10:53, 29 March 2025
rediscovery of the original 1928 UF, and this object was named 3789 Zhongguo, which is also a name for China. The near-Earth asteroid (29075) 1950 DA was discovered...
30 KB (2,255 words) - 19:48, 26 June 2025
2017 MZ8 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
MZ8) is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid, meaning that it has an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and large enough...
7 KB (443 words) - 02:36, 8 February 2025
focal plane curvature. Zooniverse — Galaxy Zoo Supernovae List of near-Earth object observation projects Law, Nicholas M.; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.; Dekany...
11 KB (1,070 words) - 02:56, 18 March 2025
2024 ON (category Near-Earth objects in 2024)
2024 ON is a near-Earth object with a length around 350 meters that flew past Earth on 17 September 2024 at a distance of 620,000 miles (1,000,000 km)...
2 KB (109 words) - 03:24, 3 May 2025