Space Objects
Asteroids and comets passing Earth within a lunar-distance limit in the next or last N days: distance, speed, size range.
- Category
- Other services
- Starting price
- $0.02
- Paid calls · 30 days
- 21
- Unique payers · 30 days
- 11
Paid endpoints
10 endpoints, sorted by usage. Prices are per request.
- GET/close-approaches
Asteroids and comets passing Earth within a lunar-distance limit in the next or last N days: distance, speed, size range.
$0.02Base3calls / 30d - GET/asteroid-size
Asteroid diameter from absolute magnitude H and albedo (or a dark-to-bright range), plus optional impact energy in megatons.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d - GET/body-approaches
Past and future Earth close approaches of one asteroid or comet by designation, for example Apophis in 2029.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d - GET/fireballs
Recorded fireball (bolide) events from US sensors: time, place, altitude, speed and impact energy in kilotons, newest first.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d - GET/impact-risk-object
Is this asteroid on the JPL Sentry impact-risk list? Probability, Palermo and Torino levels, size and likeliest impact dates.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d - GET/impact-risk-table
JPL Sentry impact-monitoring objects above a Palermo-scale threshold: probability, Torino level, size and impact years.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d - GET/impact-scales
Torino scale levels explained, or the Palermo scale value from impact probability, energy in megatons and years until impact.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d - GET/orbital-period
Orbital period from semi-major axis via Kepler's third law, with perihelion, aphelion and speeds when eccentricity is given.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d - GET/small-body
Asteroid or comet by name or designation: orbit class, NEO/hazardous flags, size, orbit elements, MOID and discovery.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d - GET/space-distance
Convert a distance between km, miles, astronomical units and lunar distances, with light travel time.
$0.02Base2calls / 30d