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Up and Coming Close Approaches (NEOs)

descddistv_relh *
2020 UM32025-May-08 00:510.0760687.78637824.3
2021 HZ2025-May-08 01:430.05112010.18705125.37
2025 JO12025-May-08 09:330.11355510.03663823.509
2025 JE2025-May-08 10:370.0024496.09636328.677
2025 HU42025-May-08 20:190.05371724.34406623.927
2017 XN612025-May-09 02:070.1767582.54228022.37
6123562025-May-09 11:020.0281195.13769520.33
2025 JB22025-May-09 12:410.0344279.60583526.335
2025 HK32025-May-09 13:400.10249116.23551823.489
2025 DJ532025-May-09 22:130.08386717.50440618.89
2022 JO2025-May-09 23:120.0558219.04444225.81
2021 KH2025-May-10 02:120.0467327.24459826.35
2025 HX22025-May-10 04:150.12675914.23551424.368
2025 JK12025-May-10 05:290.0082988.03040026.127
2025 JO2025-May-10 07:300.00956915.59421127.006
2025 JW12025-May-10 07:340.00778112.31550625.882
2025 JX12025-May-10 08:580.0056846.76485925.346
2025 JU2025-May-10 11:310.13410916.36218723.285
2015 XY2612025-May-10 17:590.17297216.88027727.2
2025 FE292025-May-10 19:070.0701576.58203024.096
Data Courtesy of CNEOS


Past 10 Days (NEOs)

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2025 HY22025-May-07 07:200.04556013.60098924.865
2025 JA22025-May-06 21:500.02366721.26613723.273
2021 JN12025-May-06 21:420.04682016.33228324.77
2025 JK2025-May-06 15:490.0338695.54178426.614
2025 HF52025-May-06 14:310.0090854.28244925.796
2025 JZ12025-May-05 04:480.01834912.18144722.71
2025 HN32025-May-04 11:030.02032813.99875725.386
2025 JM2025-May-04 00:170.04380111.24599525.311
2025 JV12025-May-03 15:190.02049710.61886626.087
2024 JM22025-May-03 08:560.01940311.26026023.78
2025 HR12025-May-02 19:410.0321366.33308227.112
2025 JJ2025-May-02 14:120.00441219.44318426.241
2025 HJ52025-May-02 06:510.0278117.77375726.825
2025 JA2025-May-02 03:470.0034105.32321928.121
2025 HP222025-May-02 00:570.00329710.86252628.492
2024 BF2025-May-01 22:180.0243004.56068324.46
2025 JB2025-May-01 12:310.00133414.24809327.509
2025 GT12025-May-01 09:370.02879811.07444224.945
2025 JF2025-May-01 06:120.00116122.69950328.543
2025 HM42025-Apr-30 23:550.00512818.93921326.193
2025 JC2025-Apr-30 05:430.01430610.74740825.299
2025 HM62025-Apr-29 23:390.01328010.79725727.217
2025 HS182025-Apr-29 23:110.0126928.27434627.359
2025 HL52025-Apr-29 23:030.0042178.38479225.666
2025 JC12025-Apr-29 22:270.0033659.10888226.607
2025 HA192025-Apr-29 21:230.01848412.67710824.607
2025 HW12025-Apr-28 17:410.00810519.66628625.714
2025 JX2025-Apr-28 16:450.0139656.77312627.47
2025 HG22025-Apr-28 15:520.0164154.89623827.664
2025 HN42025-Apr-28 12:090.0043457.99597927.189
2025 HQ42025-Apr-28 10:070.01235113.36042226.058
2025 JG2025-Apr-28 07:220.0267698.35334525.734
2025 HL32025-Apr-28 06:120.0358347.55683324.589
2025 HP42025-Apr-28 04:220.00226510.12365027.646
Data Courtesy of CNEOS


Top 10 Closest (NEOs)

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2020 VT42020-Nov-13 17:214.50910597356063e-0513.42711954917128.61
2024 XA2024-Dec-01 09:465.16452821681997e-0513.56597636773831.64
2024 LH12024-Jun-06 14:025.41335085929206e-0517.40407312519330.79
2024 UG92024-Oct-30 12:425.91577148660634e-0520.30468100765432.61
2020 QG2020-Aug-16 04:096.22797984976286e-0512.33086730638729.90
2021 UA12021-Oct-25 03:076.30135027524984e-0515.83500686033531.84
2025 BP62025-Jan-26 01:106.49203901827142e-0521.04697645613431.82
2023 BU2023-Jan-27 00:296.66251002445381e-059.26724515139529.69
2023 RS2023-Sep-07 14:266.92592750346214e-0513.58812822256632.32
2011 CQ12011-Feb-04 19:397.92234674587619e-059.69344051108732.1
 Data Courtesy of CNEOSSince 1st Jan 2000 

Key
des - primary designation of the asteroid or comet
cd - time of close-approeach (formatted calendar date/time)
dist - nominal approach distance (au)
v_rel - velocity relative to the approach body at close approach (km/s)
h - absolute magnitude H (mag)
* - An asteroid's absolute magnitude is the visual magnitude an observer would record if the asteroid were placed 1 Astronomical
     Unit (AU) away, and 1 AU from the Sun and at a zero phase angle.
1 AU = Astronomical Unit is approximately the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun, ~150 million kilometers
1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Near-Earth Objects – The Watchers
Near-Earth Objects – The Watchers

Watching the world evolve and transform

May 6th, 2025 16:05:16 EDT -0400 Asteroid 2025 FA22 enters top 5 ESA’s impact risk list
A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 FA22, has climbed into the top five positions of the European Space Agency's (ESA) risk list due to its low but measurable chance of striking Earth in 2089. During the first four months of 2025, more than 1 000 new NEOs have been discovered, in line with the recent average of about 3 000 per year.

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April 21st, 2025 05:24:53 EDT -0400 Asteroid 2025 HH flew past Earth at 0.07 LD — third closest of the year
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 HH flew past Earth at a distance of just 0.07 LD / 0.000021 AU (27 847 km / 17 304 miles) from the center of our planet at 23:24 UTC on April 17, 2025.

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March 28th, 2025 15:24:45 EDT -0400 Asteroid 2025 FV12 flew past Earth at 0.2 LD
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 FV12 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.26 LD / 0.00079 AU (118 518 km / 73 644 miles) from the center of our planet at 01:31 UTC on March 28, 2025. This was the first of two asteroid flyby's within 1 lunar distance today.

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March 26th, 2025 06:10:49 EDT -0400 Asteroid 2025 FY6 flew past Earth at just 0.05 LD on March 23
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 FY6 flew past Earth at just 0.05 LD / 0.00015 AU (21 944 km / 13 636 miles) at 19:29 UTC on March 23, 2025.

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February 25th, 2025 13:09:11 EST -0500 Impact probability for asteroid 2024 YR4 drops to 0.0017%, moon impact at 1.7%
Asteroid 2024 YR4's impact risk has dropped to 0.0017%, placing it a level 0 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale. There remains a 1.7% chance of the asteroid impacting the moon on December 22, 2032.

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Data Courtesy of watchers news
CNEOS Recent News
CNEOS Recent News

Recent news stories from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)

February 24th, 2025 03:00:00 EST -0500 Latest Calculations Conclude Asteroid 2024 YR4 Now Poses No Significant Threat to Earth in 2032 and Beyond

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future.
January 31st, 2025 03:00:00 EST -0500 Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches level 3 on the Torino Scale

NASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a small chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.
March 19th, 2024 03:00:00 EDT -0400 NASA Study: Asteroid’s Orbit, Shape Changed After DART Impact

After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a JPL-led study has shown that the shape of asteroid Dimorphos has changed and its orbit has shrunk.
January 24th, 2024 03:00:00 EST -0500 NASA System Predicts Impact of a Very Small Asteroid Over Germany

The Scout impact assessment system calculated where and when the asteroid 2024 BX1 would impact Earth’s atmosphere, providing a useful demonstration of planetary defense capability.
February 14th, 2023 03:00:00 EST -0500 CNEOS Predicts Another Small Asteroid Impact, This One over Northwestern France

Another tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth was detected over the weekend, and JPL’s CNEOS Scout system accurately predicted where and when the impact would happen, well before it actually occurred.
Data Courtesy of Cneos news

Near Earth Objects

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth's neighborhood. Composed mostly of water ice with embedded dust particles, comets originally formed in the cold outer planetary system while most of the rocky asteroids formed in the warmer inner solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The scientific interest in comets and asteroids is due largely to their status as the relatively unchanged remnant debris from the solar system formation process some 4.6 billion years ago. The giant outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) formed from an agglomeration of billions of comets and the left over bits and pieces from this formation process are the comets we see today. Likewise, today's asteroids are the bits and pieces left over from the initial agglomeration of the inner planets that include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

The vast majority of NEOs are asteroids, referred to as Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs). NEAs are divided into groups (Aten, Apollo, Amor) according to their perihelion distance (q), aphelion distance (Q) and their semi-major axes (a). See table
Group Description Definition
NECs Near-Earth Comets q<1.3 AU, P<200 years
NEAs Near-Earth Asteroids q<1.3 AU
Atiras NEAs whose orbits are contained entirely with the orbit of the Earth
(named after asteroid 163693 Atira).		 a<1.0 AU, Q<0.983 AU
Atens Earth-crossing NEAs with semi-major axes smaller than Earth's
(named after asteroid 2062 Aten).		 a<1.0 AU, Q>0.983 AU
Apollos Earth-crossing NEAs with semi-major axes larger than Earth's
(named after asteroid 1862 Apollo).		 a>1.0 AU, q<1.017 AU
Amors Earth-approaching NEAs with orbits exterior to Earth's but interior to Mars'
(named after asteroid 1221 Amor).		 a>1.0 AU, 1.017<q<1.3 AU
PHAs Potentially Hazardous Asteriods: NEAs whose Minimum Orbit Intersection
Distance (MOID) with the Earth is 0.05 AU or less and whose absolute
magnitude (H) is 22.0 or brighter.		 MOID<=0.05 AU, H<=22.0

NEO - RECENT CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH

Near Earth Objects - Our solar system is teeming with asteroids and comets, some of which periodically pass close to Earth. These space rocks, called near-Earth objects, provide good opportunities for study and can also be potentially dangerous to Earth. Ask the dinosaurs !!!

April 28th 2020
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2020 HS7 will flyby Earth at a very close distance of 0.11 LD / 0.00029 AU (43 383 km / 26 957 miles) at 18:51 UTC on April 28, 2020.

September 1st 2018
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: Asteroid named 'Florence' and is about 2.7 miles in length NASA has warned that the largest Earth-bound asteroid ever seen by NASA Florence will fly by at a relatively safe distance of 4.4 million miles away, around 18 times the distance between the Earth and the moon, but still close enough to be classed as a near-Earth object. It will be visible in small telescopes for several nights as it moves through the constellations Piscis Austrinus, Capricornus, Aquarius and Delphinus.

October 12th 2017
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: 2012 TC4 The large space rock, named 2012 TC4, was first spotted five years ago by the Pan-STARRS telescope at the Haleakala Observatory, in Hawaii, before disappearing as it orbits the sun. It then reemerged in July on a trajectory well inside our lunar orbit. Scientists said the asteroid swung by Earth about 6:42am BST, 42,000 kilometers) above Antarctica at 0542 GMT Thursday. That's about 11 percent the distance between Earth and the moon, and just beyond the orbit of geostationary satellites..

September 1st 2017
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: At 1206 GMT, the roughly 2.7-mile-wide (4.4 kilometers) asteroid 3122 Florence came within a mere 4.4 million miles (7 million km) of Earth — just 18 times the distance from our planet to the moon.

April 19th 2017
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: According to NASA, the asteroid 2014 JO25 will come within 4.6 lunar distances, This will be the closest of an asteroid of this size since a September 2004, with an estimated diameter of 0.65 km, larger than the Rock of Gibraltar.

February 2nd 2017
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: A newly discovered asteroid 2017 BS32 will flyby Earth on February 2, 2017 at a distance of 0.41 LD from the surface. This near-Earth object belongs to Aten group of asteroids. 2017 BS32 was discovered on January 30 by Pan-STARRS 1, Haleakala. Its estimated size is between 11 and 25 m (36 to 82 feet). It will flyby Earth at 20:27 UTC on February 2 at a distance of 0.41 LD (161 280 km / 100 214 miles) from the surface at a speed (relative to Earth) of 11.56 km/s.

This is the fourth know near-Earth asteroid to pass very close to Earth (below 1 LD) since January 8, 2017

January 26th 2015
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: The asteroid 2004 BL86 will fly by Earth on Jan. 26, passing at a range of about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers), about three times the distance between the Earth and the moon. It will be the asteroid's closest approach to Earth for the next 200 years, according to NASA scientists. Asteroid 2004 BL86 is nearly 1,800 feet (549 meters) in diameter, but there is no risk of it hitting the Earth when it zips by. The next asteroid of similar size to come near Earth will be the asteroid 1999 AN10, which will make its closest approach in 2027, according to the NASA statement

February 18th 2014
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: Asteroid 2000 EM26. A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of three football fields will come uncomfortably close to Earth early on Tuesday. The space rock, known as 2000 EM26, poses no threat and will pass the Earth at just under nine times the distance to the moon. But it is defined as a potentially hazardous near-Earth object (NEO) large enough to cause significant damage in the event of an impact. Scientists estimate the asteroid, travelling at 27,000mph, is 270 metres (885ft) wide. At its closest approach at 2am UK time, the rock will be 2.1m miles from Earth, or 8.8 lunar distances.

February 15th 2013
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be closest to Earth on February 15, 2013 at about 19:24 GMT (2:24 p.m. EST or 11:24 a.m. PST), when it will be at a distance of about 27,700 kilometers (17,200 miles) above the Earth's surface. This is so close that the asteroid will actually pass inside the ring of geosynchronous satellites, which is located about 35,800 kilometers (22,200 miles) above the equator, but still well above the vast majority of satellites, including the International Space Station. At its closest, the asteroid will be only about 1/13th of the distance to the Moon. The asteroid will fly by our planet quite rapidly, at a speed of about 7.8 kilometers/second (17,400 miles/hour) in a south-to-north direction with respect to the Earth

15/2/2013 03:20 GMT In a seperate incident a meteor crashing in Russia's Ural mountains has injured at least 950 people, as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings. Many videos have appeared on the internet
January 27th 2012
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: 2012 BX34 is a small Aten asteroid that made a close flyby of the Earth on 27 January 2012. The asteroid passed within 0.0004371 AU (65,390 km; 40,630 mi) of Earth during its closest approach at 15:25 GMT, conducting one of the closest asteroid passes on record. 2012 BX34 measures around 8 meters (26 ft) across; if it had impacted in 2012, it would have been too small to pass through Earth's atmosphere intact.
November 8th 2011
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 passed within 0.85 lunar distances from the Earth. This was the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years, according to Nasa. It is also the largest space rock fly-by Earth has seen since 1976; the next visit by a large asteroid will be 2028. The aircraft-carrier-sized asteroid was darkly coloured in visible wavelengths and nearly spherical, lazily spinning about once every 20 hours as it raced through our neighbourhood of the Solar System.
January 13 2010
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: at 12:46 pm Greenwich time Asteroid 2010 AL30, will make a close approach to the Earth's surface to within 76,000 miles, about 10-15 meters across.
Novemeber 6th 2009
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: at 2132 UT, asteroid 2009 VA barely missed Earth when it flew just 14,000 km above the planet's surface. That's well inside the "Clarke Belt" of geosynchronous satellites. If it had hit, the 6 metre wide space rock would have disintegrated in the atmosphere as a spectacular fireball, causing no significant damage to the ground. 2009 VA was discovered just 15 hours before closest approach by astronomers working at the Catalina Sky Survey.

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Potential future Earth impact events that the CNEOS Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations

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