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Our Mission

IAWN was established (2013) as a result of the UN-endorsed recommendations for an international response to a potential NEO impact threat, to create an international group of organizations involved in detecting, tracking, and characterizing NEOs. The IAWN is tasked with developing a strategy using well-defined communication plans and protocols to assist Governments in the analysis of asteroid impact consequences and in the planning of mitigation responses.

Currently, IAWN includes members from all over the world!

About IAWN

Recent Signatories

  • John J. McCarthy Observatory (932)
  • Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (461, 561 and K88)
  • Al-Khatim Observatory (M44), United Arab Emirates

NEO News

C/2011 W3 Lovejoy

C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) photographed from the ISS
Credit: By NASA/Dan Burbank

C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) - a new Kreutz Sungrazing Comet

(25 Oct 2024) On 27 September 2024, the ATLAS project discovered a new comet relatively near the sun in the sky. Initial orbit computations at the MPC indicated this new discovery was a Kreutz Sungrazer...
Read More: NEO News

Close Approaches

Asteriod designation: 2024 XA1
Discovery station: Kitt Peak-Bok
Close approach date (UTC): 2024 12 03.68
Close approach distance (× lunar distance): 0.01
Discovery announcement
Latest orbit & observations

Close Approach List

Multi-Opp. CAs