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...

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

  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...

  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...

  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:  ...

  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.  ...

  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...

  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,...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

ESA’s NEO Coordination Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary

Several mission opportunities to close-approach asteroids up to 2040

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

The Planetary Defence community has detected the eighth asteroid impactor

An automated procedure for Yarkovsky effect determination developed by NEOCC

The Planetary Defence community has detected the fifth asteroid impactor

The atmospheric impact of this 1-metre object has been observed as a fireball from UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands

For the third time in recent history of asteroid detection a NEO was detected a few hours before it entered the Earth atmosphere (the two previous cases were 2008 TC3 and 2014 AA). Asteroid 2018 LA...

ESA’s TBT2 survey telescope discovers its first Near Earth Asteroid

NEOCC’s NEO Toolkit is enhanced with the SOVT

What can we learn from close approachers?

Fireballs and bright meteors are small-sized NEOs, typically centimetres to metres in diameter, that collide with the Earth. They are sufficiently small to disintegrate almost completely in the...

Close Approach Fact Sheet for asteroid 2024 MK (version 4.0)

Near-Earth Object Population Observation Program (NEOPOP) During activities related to ESA's Space-Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, the need for an observation system simulation software tool...