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Recently discovered

Several near-Earth objects are found every night. Most are small, most are never seen again for years, and a good number of the things on the confirmation page turn out not to be new at all.

Awaiting confirmation

Live

These are candidates, not discoveries. Each is a moving object someone has reported that may be a near-Earth object; the score is the Minor Planet Centre's estimate of how likely that is. Most entries leave the page within days — confirmed, identified as something already known, or discarded.

93 candidates. A temporary designation is not a name: it is discarded once the object is confirmed and properly designated, or once it is discounted.
Temporary designationNEO scoreObservationsObserved arcLast seenApparent magnitude
CEYGFZ210040.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 21.2
C46QEC110070.04 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 18.3
CEY67Q210050.07 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 20.6
C1H6AJ510040.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 21.8
P12rJKr10030.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 20.7
C1H2H3510070.12 d0.1 d agoV 22.3
C1H5U0510040.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 21.9
C1H37T510070.08 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 21.6
CEXTY0210060.13 d0.1 d agoV 21.0
C1H4CY510040.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 21.9
P12rJJT10030.03 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 20.7
CEXU8V210080.12 d0.1 d agoV 21.8
C1H24T510060.06 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 22.7
CEXRE3210080.12 d0.1 d agoV 21.3
CEXR2G210070.11 d0.2 d agoV 21.3
CEXR6G210080.10 d0.2 d agoV 21.4
C1H07C510070.11 d0.2 d agoV 22.3
C1H1DP510070.05 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.2 d agoV 21.5
CEXPX2210080.10 d0.2 d agoV 20.4
CEXPMH210050.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.2 d agoV 20.5
P22rEy8100100.88 d0.2 d agoV 21.8
P12rE5H10081.88 d0.2 d agoV 20.8
CEXM6Q210060.16 d0.2 d agoV 20.5
CEXN6R210080.10 d0.2 d agoV 20.5
CEXMJP210070.11 d0.2 d agoV 20.3
A11J2vb10040.06 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.5 d agoV 19.1
P22rEQ810060.04 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.8 d agoV 20.6
P22rEy910050.20 d0.9 d agoV 21.4
A11J0Lc10040.04 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained1.0 d agoV 17.8
W02333410030.00 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained1.5 d agoV 20.7
LVV008610030.03 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained1.7 d agoV 21.3
XAavqXA10030.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained1.7 d agoV 20.9
P22rEbW10040.04 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained2.0 d agoV 21.3
X9153710030.01 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained2.9 d agoV 19.6
orA687510030.01 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained3.5 d agoV 21.4
CEXJ3W2100190.05 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained5.0 d ago—
C1M0JJP10040.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained43.3 d agoV 21.3
C1LT2DP10040.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained62.3 d agoV 21.9
C1H5EW59970.07 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 22.3
CEY8NR29860.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 21.0
C1H5U159870.10 d0.0 d agoV 22.2
CEY6GF29860.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 21.0
CEY67P29870.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 20.9
C46QAD198130.10 d0.0 d agoV 18.7
A11J0Le98101.02 d0.0 d agoV 17.8
CEXYUH298120.15 d0.0 d agoV 20.5
C1H457598100.12 d0.0 d agoV 21.5
C1H2D659870.17 d0.0 d agoV 22.3
A11J2vc98100.42 d0.0 d agoV 17.6
C1H4CW59880.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 22.4
C1H4UL59870.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 21.2
CEXU5V29880.19 d0.1 d agoV 20.9
P22rJH898111.01 d0.1 d agoV 20.4
C46Q9C198110.14 d0.1 d agoV 15.9
C1H36Y59870.12 d0.1 d agoV 22.2
CEY0TG29870.10 d0.1 d agoV 20.5
C1H1A859870.12 d0.1 d agoV 22.4
CEXRXN29870.12 d0.1 d agoV 20.1
A11J2v99880.86 d0.1 d agoV 19.6
C1H0P8598110.11 d0.2 d agoV 20.3
C1GZVW59860.10 d0.2 d agoV 21.5
CEXQ9U29870.10 d0.2 d agoV 20.6
CEXM6429880.11 d0.3 d agoV 20.6
A11J0L89850.53 d0.5 d agoV 19.4
C1H4JE59740.02 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 22.0
CEY6X129660.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.0 d agoV 20.6
P12rECK96150.95 d0.0 d agoV 20.2
C1H39359580.11 d0.1 d agoV 22.8
C1H3AM59380.10 d0.1 d agoV 22.5
P12rED69290.97 d0.0 d agoV 20.5
gb0087591350.94 d0.5 d agoV 18.9
C1H2H159070.08 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 22.3
P22rEzP87141.07 d0.0 d agoV 21.6
P12rJIe8540.04 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.9 d agoV 21.5
P22rAEs84281.84 d0.3 d agoV 19.8
W0233388360.67 d0.8 d agoV 21.0
P12rAxW80161.95 d0.2 d agoV 21.0
6KV482179295.65 d0.5 d agoV 19.8
P12rE6S7930.03 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained2.1 d agoV 21.4
CEXZD3277120.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.1 d agoV 21.7
P12rAxV77381.78 d0.4 d agoV 19.7
C1H02456970.09 dvery short — the orbit is barely constrained0.2 d agoV 22.5
P22rEFS6650.11 d0.8 d agoV 21.4
P12pwoA411355.14 d7.0 d agoV 21.7
A11HAVq358828.91 d0.1 d agoV 19.2
P12rrw8353083.53 d0.4 d agoV 21.5
A11IrUa358118.87 d0.7 d agoV 19.4
P22qZTc354040.50 d4.3 d agoV 21.7
P12qfMj354294.76 d18.1 d agoV 21.8
P22pKXS354562.82 d18.1 d agoV 22.0
P22oLCM35521.76 d31.2 d agoV 22.3
P22oVrz352538.84 d60.1 d agoV 23.0
A11ISeO10689.22 d0.6 d agoV 17.6

The NEO Confirmation Page lists CANDIDATES, not discoveries. An entry may turn out to be an already-known object, a main-belt asteroid rather than a near-Earth one, or an artefact; most entries leave the page within days. The score is the MPC's estimate of how likely the object is a NEO, not a probability that it exists.

Newly catalogued

Live

Objects whose first observationfalls in the last sixty days and which now have a computed orbit in JPL's small-body database. First observation is not the same as announcement: an object is often recovered in archival images taken before anyone realised it was there.

The 60 most recent of 549 entries. MOID is the minimum distance between the two orbits, not between the two bodies — an object with a small MOID need never come close in practice.
DesignationFirst observedOrbit classEstimated sizeEarth MOIDHazard classification
2026 VCNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-11-02APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit15 m–33 mestimated from H 26.30.0332 auNot classified hazardous
2026 VDNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-11-02AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit32 m–72 mestimated from H 24.60.1400 auNot classified hazardous
2026 VFNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-11-02AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit22 m–49 mestimated from H 25.40.0815 auNot classified hazardous
2026 VANot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-11-01APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit22 m–49 mestimated from H 25.40.0018 auNot classified hazardous
2026 VBNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-11-01APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit6 m–14 mestimated from H 28.10.0057 auNot classified hazardous
2026 VENot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-11-01APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit19 m–43 mestimated from H 25.70.0097 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UT3Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-30APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit41 m–92 mestimated from H 24.10.0160 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UP3Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-30ATEAten — Earth-crossing, mostly inside Earth's orbit20 m–44 mestimated from H 25.60.0093 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UR3Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-30APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit41 m–91 mestimated from H 24.10.0172 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UO3Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-29APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit14 m–30 mestimated from H 26.40.0018 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UN3Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-29APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit8 m–18 mestimated from H 27.60.0007 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UC4Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-29AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit38 m–85 mestimated from H 24.20.0874 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UB2Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-28APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit12 m–27 mestimated from H 26.70.0027 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UC2Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-28APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit17 m–38 mestimated from H 26.00.0023 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UD2Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-28APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit9 m–21 mestimated from H 27.30.0004 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UE2Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-28APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit3 m–8 mestimated from H 29.40.0007 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UF2Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-28APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit44 m–99 mestimated from H 23.90.0053 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UH2Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-28APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit27 m–60 mestimated from H 25.00.0006 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UX2Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-28APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit89 m–199 mestimated from H 22.40.0005 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UQ3Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-28APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit11 m–25 mestimated from H 26.90.0027 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UL1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-22ATEAten — Earth-crossing, mostly inside Earth's orbit9 m–21 mestimated from H 27.30.0024 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UG1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-22APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit13 m–29 mestimated from H 26.60.0022 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UJ1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-22APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit14 m–30 mestimated from H 26.50.0015 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UA1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-20APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit7 m–15 mestimated from H 28.00.0011 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UC1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-20APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit93 m–208 mestimated from H 22.30.1120 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UE1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-20APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit9 m–20 mestimated from H 27.30.0105 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UW1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-20APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit65 m–145 mestimated from H 23.10.1150 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UX1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-20APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit108 m–241 mestimated from H 22.00.2080 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UB4Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit46 m–103 mestimated from H 23.80.0717 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UNNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit27 m–60 mestimated from H 25.00.0064 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UONot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit15 m–34 mestimated from H 26.20.0050 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UQNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19ATEAten — Earth-crossing, mostly inside Earth's orbit8 m–17 mestimated from H 27.70.0138 auNot classified hazardous
2026 URNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit53 m–118 mestimated from H 23.50.0471 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UWNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit17 m–37 mestimated from H 26.00.0355 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UXNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit29 m–65 mestimated from H 24.80.0395 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UD1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit276 m–617 mestimated from H 19.90.1540 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UF1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-19AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit77 m–173 mestimated from H 22.70.2330 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UKNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-18APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit25 m–55 mestimated from H 25.10.0186 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UPNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-18APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit4 m–8 mestimated from H 29.20.0002 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UV1Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-18AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit81 m–182 mestimated from H 22.60.2200 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UGNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-17APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit10 m–21 mestimated from H 27.20.0117 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UHNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-17APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit23 m–50 mestimated from H 25.40.0369 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UJNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-17APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit5 m–12 mestimated from H 28.40.0021 auNot classified hazardous
2026 ULNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-17ATEAten — Earth-crossing, mostly inside Earth's orbit31 m–70 mestimated from H 24.60.0034 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UANot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-16APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit13 m–28 mestimated from H 26.60.0062 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UBNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-16APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit15 m–33 mestimated from H 26.30.0156 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UDNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-16APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit19 m–42 mestimated from H 25.70.0226 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UENot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-16APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit18 m–41 mestimated from H 25.80.0056 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UFNot yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-16APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit26 m–58 mestimated from H 25.10.0157 auNot classified hazardous
2026 UT2Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-16APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit130 m–291 mestimated from H 21.60.0628 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TC94Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-15APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit11 m–26 mestimated from H 26.80.0002 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TW94Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-15APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit84 m–189 mestimated from H 22.50.0242 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TV95Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-15AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit46 m–103 mestimated from H 23.80.0785 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TZ102Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-15APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit35 m–78 mestimated from H 24.40.0011 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TA103Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-15APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit32 m–71 mestimated from H 24.60.0405 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TD103Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-15APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit18 m–41 mestimated from H 25.80.0031 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TP128Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-15APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit1 m–2 mestimated from H 32.00.0001 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TE128Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-15AMOAmor — approaches but does not cross Earth's orbit49 m–109 mestimated from H 23.70.1810 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TO69Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-14ATEAten — Earth-crossing, mostly inside Earth's orbit16 m–35 mestimated from H 26.20.0109 auNot classified hazardous
2026 TV86Not yet catalogued in AsteriaStar2026-10-14APOApollo — Earth-crossing, mostly outside Earth's orbit13 m–30 mestimated from H 26.50.0088 auNot classified hazardous

“Potentially hazardous” is a category, not a warning

An object is classified potentially hazardous if its orbit comes within 0.05 astronomical units of Earth's and it is bright enough — absolute magnitude 22.0 or brighter — to be roughly 140 metres across or larger. Both tests include their boundary. Both conditions are about the orbit and the size, and neither says anything about whether an impact is expected. Thousands of known objects meet the definition — a few thousand, and rising as surveys find more, which is why no fixed number is written here. None of them is on a collision course.

Provenance

Every figure here is JPL's or the Minor Planet Centre's. AsteriaStar computes no impact probability and applies no danger rating of its own: where a hazard is named, it is on a scale the issuing agency defined, quoted as they define it. A close approach is described by its distance and its uncertainty, because that is what the data says. Objects pass within a few lunar distances routinely, and the word for that is “routine”.

Newly catalogued objects

Live
Status
Live
Kind
Observation
Provider
JPL Solar System Dynamics / CNEOS
Organisation
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Fetched
2026-11-03 10:46 UTC
Provider cadence
1 d
Cached for
6 h
Treated as stale after
1 d
Licence
Public domain (US Government work), NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Source file: https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb_query.api?fields=full_name,pdes,neo,pha,H,diameter,first_obs,class,moid&sb-class=IEO,ATE,APO,AMO&sb-cdata=%7B%22AND%22%3A%5B%22first_obs%7CGE%7C2026-09-04%22%5D%7D&sort=-first_obs&limit=1000

Recently observed near-Earth objects from JPL Solar System Dynamics / CNEOS, fetched from https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb_query.api?fields=full_name,pdes,neo,pha,H,diameter,first_obs,class,moid&sb-class=IEO,ATE,APO,AMO&sb-cdata=%7B%22AND%22%3A%5B%22first_obs%7CGE%7C2026-09-04%22%5D%7D&sort=-first_obs&limit=1000. A new NEO enters the database once its orbit is computed, which happens over days. Six hours cannot delay one meaningfully, and the date window only advances once per day.

`first_obs` is the date of the FIRST OBSERVATION used in the orbit solution — not the date the object was announced, and not the date anyone recognised it as new. Absolute magnitude H is a brightness, not a size; a diameter appears only where one has actually been measured or modelled.

Confirmation page

Live
Status
Live
Kind
Observation
Provider
IAU Minor Planet Center
Organisation
International Astronomical Union / Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian
Fetched
2026-11-03 10:46 UTC
Provider cadence
15 min
Cached for
10 min
Treated as stale after
12 h
Licence
Public data of the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Source file: https://minorplanetcenter.net/Extended_Files/neocp.json

NEO Confirmation Page (unconfirmed candidates) from IAU Minor Planet Center, fetched from https://minorplanetcenter.net/Extended_Files/neocp.json. The page is regenerated as observations arrive, and entries live on it for hours to days. Ten minutes bounds how long a new candidate is missing while keeping the request rate to a small file trivial.

These are CANDIDATES awaiting confirmation, not discoveries. An entry may prove to be an already-known object, not a near-Earth object at all, or an artefact, and most leave the page within days. The score is the MPC's estimate of how likely the object is a NEO — it is not a probability that the object exists, and it is not an impact risk.

Sources & references

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics

    Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

    Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.

  • Minor Planet CenterIAU Minor Planet Center

    Designations and orbits of asteroids, comets, and minor bodies.