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Near Earth Objects


Up and Coming Close Approaches (NEOs)

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2026 BT2026-Jan-19 02:270.0073426.26474128.866
2025 DB72026-Jan-19 05:030.0956922.60858127.28
2026 BL2026-Jan-19 05:090.0078954.08006429.853
2026 BH12026-Jan-19 06:250.0227948.43343027.462
2025 UQ32026-Jan-19 06:390.0974467.93582823.11
2025 SG812026-Jan-20 00:380.19228213.94110719.77
2025 YJ102026-Jan-20 06:070.1021002.34726525.515
2025 XA72026-Jan-20 12:070.1116328.33499924.275
2025 YX72026-Jan-20 13:530.04986511.48824523.335
2026 AV42026-Jan-20 14:220.01854411.01397527.642
2026 AK2026-Jan-20 19:060.02939314.96845323.74
2021 BR22026-Jan-20 20:540.0577099.12693430.87
2026 AL2026-Jan-21 00:430.0438814.92641425.05
2011 OK52026-Jan-21 02:050.1416796.84610421.24
2015 OM352026-Jan-21 02:100.1792817.99055922.13
2026 AW42026-Jan-21 06:040.04190017.46710525.013
2026 AG2026-Jan-21 12:000.0275369.13278825.832
2025 XQ42026-Jan-21 21:590.13187410.42822422.812
2026 AL42026-Jan-22 10:200.0628084.35680726.366
3108422026-Jan-22 11:290.1973069.20327819.83
Data Courtesy of CNEOS


Past 10 Days (NEOs)

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2026 AS12026-Jan-18 14:260.0209567.07931726.275
2026 AQ22026-Jan-17 15:470.01536210.00051526.244
2026 BB2026-Jan-17 12:120.0014757.87795029.775
2004 MO32026-Jan-17 12:030.04342710.22741622.2
2025 BL2026-Jan-17 07:140.0119816.90056825.49
2018 SB22026-Jan-17 02:500.04149223.65066424.2
2026 AE42026-Jan-17 01:520.0013738.22507229.281
2026 BW2026-Jan-16 22:200.0074907.53968928.937
2026 AO42026-Jan-16 21:370.04549314.92857125.233
2026 AX2026-Jan-16 17:440.0112723.63217526.874
2026 AS32026-Jan-16 17:020.03433320.16557424.597
2026 BU2026-Jan-16 08:280.0048179.94359928.19
2026 BV2026-Jan-16 08:280.0048179.94363428.21
2026 BD2026-Jan-16 07:170.01690416.44068827.067
2026 AG42026-Jan-16 04:540.02437515.73514624.933
2026 AN42026-Jan-16 04:500.0025605.82595529.821
2026 BN2026-Jan-16 04:350.0175739.04667728.566
2026 BS2026-Jan-16 01:370.0156477.25120928.778
2026 BE2026-Jan-15 23:520.00306817.14361025.989
2026 AR12026-Jan-15 22:100.00755316.89077826.121
2026 AP52026-Jan-15 06:340.0392827.46885027.773
2026 AZ22026-Jan-15 05:510.00233917.96190527.15
2026 BY2026-Jan-14 16:010.0131255.57269827.584
2026 AM22026-Jan-14 09:380.00366110.51443727.949
2022 OB52026-Jan-14 07:210.0043132.19152428.96
2026 BG12026-Jan-14 06:450.04959318.85588425.146
2025 XN12026-Jan-14 06:450.0236894.72979225.016
2026 AY12026-Jan-14 03:360.0131205.56191627.498
2026 AU32026-Jan-13 23:590.0351794.54183427.459
2026 AX12026-Jan-13 21:050.02450514.85274925.113
2026 AW22026-Jan-13 18:320.02190912.11568224.367
2026 AX32026-Jan-13 14:290.0357246.52357527.522
2026 AO2026-Jan-12 23:050.0106559.70443324.605
2022 GR32026-Jan-12 20:480.03712312.85381927.91
2026 AT42026-Jan-12 15:440.0369096.20436926.799
2025 YR72026-Jan-12 15:080.0236658.89407025.923
2026 AJ2026-Jan-12 01:070.0103319.18226427.233
2025 YL2026-Jan-11 23:590.0192193.95086827.134
2026 AV2026-Jan-11 23:340.0144415.11135026.883
2026 AJ22026-Jan-11 21:380.04054611.45801125.627
2025 YU62026-Jan-11 21:270.0106014.74775425.993
2026 AL22026-Jan-11 17:330.00999015.67609825.928
2026 AR42026-Jan-11 07:080.00262618.08029128.677
2026 AG52026-Jan-11 07:040.0113277.28281327.726
2026 AN2026-Jan-11 00:580.01020910.48645225.393
2026 AW2026-Jan-11 00:130.01810211.40759527.17
2026 AW12026-Jan-10 22:480.0018297.02613129.695
2026 AF22026-Jan-10 20:230.0252728.39049826.76
2026 AV12026-Jan-10 17:430.03920519.83712526.263
2026 AC22026-Jan-10 12:390.0400909.18814825.439
2026 AB22026-Jan-10 10:270.02161719.10712026.612
2026 AX22026-Jan-10 04:570.01047316.75360323.56
2026 AB2026-Jan-10 04:110.0053469.11226827.634
2026 AD32026-Jan-09 12:540.0213568.05794027.557
2026 AG32026-Jan-09 05:000.03235311.07116426.268
2026 AC12026-Jan-08 23:190.01464116.20518723.624
2026 BA2026-Jan-08 21:250.0138107.64102926.087
2026 AU2026-Jan-08 20:310.00170811.18256728.077
2026 AU12026-Jan-08 17:320.01430318.52205425.948
2025 YY82026-Jan-08 01:080.0316406.59218424.894
Data Courtesy of CNEOS


Top 10 Closest (NEOs)

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2025 UC112025-Oct-30 12:114.41128327249007e-0511.36492930264934.037
2020 VT42020-Nov-13 17:214.50910597356063e-0513.42711954917128.61
2025 TF2025-Oct-01 00:494.5324634421986e-0520.87611430068831.70
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
 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

December 2nd, 2025 09:47:00 EST -0500 Asteroid 2025 WE14 flew past Earth at 0.07 LD
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 WE14 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.073 lunar distances at 18:44 UTC on November 29, 2025. The object was first detected by the Mt. Lemmon Survey on November 30 during a very short one-day observation arc.

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December 1st, 2025 11:50:57 EST -0500 Asteroid 2025 WV13 flew past Earth at just 0.06 lunar distances
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 WV13 made a very close approach to Earth on November 27, 2025, passing at just 0.065 lunar distances.

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November 3rd, 2025 11:30:00 EST -0500 Asteroid 2025 UC11 flew past Earth at 0.01 LD
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 UC11 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.017 lunar distances (0.00004 AU / 6 599 km / 4 101 miles) at 12:11 UTC on October 30, 2025. The object was first detected seven hours earlier by the JPL SynTrack Robotic Telescope in Auberry, California.

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October 15th, 2025 04:44:20 EDT -0400 Asteroid 2025 TP5 to fly past Earth at 0.2 LD on October 15
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 TP2 will make a close approach to Earth at 20:08 UTC on October 15, 2025, passing at just of 0.25 lunar distances.

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October 2nd, 2025 07:06:04 EDT -0400 Asteroid 2025 TF flew just 420 km (260 miles) above Antarctica, second-closest flyby on record
A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2025 TF made an extremely close approach to Earth at 00:49 UTC on October 1, 2025, reaching a nominal distance of 0.02 LD (0.00005 AU / 6 790 km / 4 220 miles) from Earth’s center -- equivalent to about 419 km (260 miles) above the surface over Antarctica. At this distance, it is now classified as the second-closest asteroid flyby ever recorded.

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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)

July 2nd, 2025 03:00:00 EDT -0400 NASA Discovers Interstellar Comet Moving Through Solar System

On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space.

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.

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.

NEO Links

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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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