Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Higher Education
Subject
Space Science, Solar System and Planets, Asteroids Comets Meteorites
Type
Websites
Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs, are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter Earth’s neighborhood. The Near-Earth Object Program coordinates NASA-sponsored efforts to detect, track and characterize potentially hazardous asteroids and comets that could approach the Earth.
Near-Earth Object Program