feed2js_ck = true;

document.write('<div class="rss-box">');
document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov" target="_self">CNEOS Recent News</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Recent news stories from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)</span></p>');
document.write('<ul class="rss-items">');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7783" target="_self">Earth May Have Captured a 1960s-Era Rocket Booster</a><br />');
document.write('Earth has captured a tiny object from its orbit around the Sun and will keep it as a temporary satellite for a few months before it escapes back to a solar orbit. But the object is likely not an asteroid; it\'s probably the Centaur upper stage rocket booster that helped lift NASA\'s ill-fated Surveyor 2 spacecraft toward the Moon in 1966.Update, 2020-12-02: New Data Confirm 2020&nbsp;SO Is the Surveyor&nbsp;2 Centaur Upper Stage');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7752" target="_self">School Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth</a><br />');
document.write('A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth\'s neighborhood on Thursday, Sept. 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) above our planet\'s surface. The asteroid will make its close approach below the ring of geostationary satellites orbiting about 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) away from Earth.');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7728" target="_self">Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth - the Closest Flyby on Record</a><br />');
document.write('Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday, Aug. 16 at 12:08 a.m. EDT (Saturday, Aug. 15 at 9:08 p.m. PDT).');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news206.html" target="_self">Asteroid 1998 OR2 to Safely Fly Past Earth This Week</a><br />');
document.write('A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 2-kilometer-wide (1.5-mile-wide) object in great detail.');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/small-asteroid-to-safely-fly-by-earth" target="_self">Small Asteroid to Safely Fly by Earth</a><br />');
document.write('A relatively small asteroid, about 4 to 8 meters in diameter, will fly safely past Earth just before 3pm today, Apr. 28 (Eastern U.S. time). NASA is tracking the object, but orbit calculations ruled out any chance that the near-Earth object could pose a threat to our planet.');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news205.html" target="_self">Tiny Object Discovered in Distant Orbit Around the Earth</a><br />');
document.write('A small object, presumed to be a tiny asteroid, has been discovered in a distant orbit about the Earth, a highly unusual circumstance, since asteroids normally orbit the Sun. The new “mini-moon” has been given the asteroid designation 2020 CD3, but in view of its strange orbit, there is a chance that the object is an old lunar spacecraft or a small discarded rocket stage. Based on its brightness, 2020 CD3 is very small, no more than 1 to 2 meters (3 to 6 feet) in size. The discovery was made on February 15, 2020 by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey, one of the most productive asteroid-searching programs currently in operation.');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7498" target="_self">Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor</a><br />');
document.write('A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The object - designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) - was discovered on Aug. 30, 2019, by Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Crimea. The official confirmation that comet C/2019 Q4 is an interstellar comet has not yet been made, but if it is interstellar, it would be only the second such object detected.');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news204.html" target="_self">Small Asteroid of Concern will Safely Pass Next Month</a><br />');
document.write('The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has determined with new analysis by its Sentry impact monitoring system that a small asteroid whose uncertain position was of concern will pass by Earth at a very safe distance in September. The new analysis of the asteroid, called 2006 QV89, was made possible by key telescopic observations made in early July, and then again the weekend of August 10-11, by Dr. Dave Tholen of the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy.');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news203.html" target="_self">Largest Asteroid To Pass This Close To Earth in a Century</a><br />');
document.write('On the evening of Thursday, July 24, a football-field-sized asteroid passed close to the Earth with very little warning. The asteroid, designated 2019 OK, approached Earth at about 40,400 miles (65,000 kilometers) above the surface, one fifth the distance to the Moon. Other known asteroids have passed by closer, and a few very small asteroids have even impacted our atmosphere just after discovery, but none have been as large: 2019 OK is estimated to be 195-425 feet (60-130 meters) in size.');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2019-127" target="_self">NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere</a><br />');
document.write('When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something that wasn\'t lightning last Saturday, a scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, did some detective work.');
document.write('</li>');
document.write('</ul></div>');