Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL - NASA's Eyes
Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.
NASA Asteroid Tracking System Now Capable of Full Sky Search
Jan 31, 2022 · NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)—the world’s first full-scale mission to test a technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid impacts—launched November 24, 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Eyes on Asteroids - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
See thousands of asteroids and comets in real-time, see the next five close approaches to Earth, and explore past, present and future missions to asteroids and comets.
Next Five Asteroid Approaches - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory …
1 day ago · The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter.
Will ‘Apophis’ Hit Earth In 2029? We’ll Know In 2027 ... - Forbes
Nov 6, 2024 · An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists consider the chance extremely small.
Once-A-Decade Event As 2.6 Miles-Wide Asteroid Hurtles Past …
1 day ago · With an estimated diameter of 2.6 miles, (887) Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.
Massive, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid due to make closest-ever ...
Dec 3, 2024 · The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter will be livestreamed for everyone to see.
NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System …
Dec 6, 2021 · Each point represented a slightly different possible current location of the asteroid. Sentry would then wind the clock forward, watch those “virtual asteroids” orbit the Sun, and see if any came near Earth in the future.
An asteroid will whip by Earth tonight in one of closest …
Jan 27, 2023 · Instead of circling the sun every 359 days, it will move into an oval orbit lasting 425 days, according to NASA. An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night,...
NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details
May 1, 2015 · Spacecraft guidance is achieved through the use of a sensor suite of five digital solar attitude detectors, an inertial measurement unit, (IMU) and a star tracker camera pointed opposite the instrument pointing direction.