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Welcome to the experimental online sandbox of random things on near-Earth science. Everything here is a work in progress and will remain so for the foreseeable future. If you can't get something on here to work, it probably doesn't.

Status

Jan 10, 2020—The solar system visualization tool has been updated to show the names of objects on click.


Near-Earth Object (NEO)—any asteroid or comet in the solar system following an orbit with

  • perihelion distance q < 1.3 au
  • orbital period P < 200 yr