For the first time in the history of NEA observations more than 2 000 new NEAs have been discovered in one calendar year, resulting in a monthly average of nearly 170 new asteroids. In addition, 2017 was the fifth year in a row with NEA discoveries above a thousand.

On 25 March 2015 our website experienced unusually high traffic for a few hours, seven times above our average rate. We tracked this boost of popularity to some news about the flyby of asteroid 2014 YB35 that were circulating on the web around that time.

September 2022 Newsletter

Near-Earth asteroid 3122 Florence will have a close pass by Earth on1 September when it will be at a closest distance of 0.0472 au (18.4 LD), which makes it a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA). This Amor object, named after nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), has an estimated diameter of ~4.35 km and was discovered in March 1981 by S.J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory.