iNEO - Asteroid Closest to Earth app for iPhone and iPad


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Developer: Microprojects
1.99 USD
Current version: 1.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 11 May 2009
App size: 320.19 Kb

Occasionally the news has a report of an asteroid that came close to the earth but what about today, right now? How close is an asteroid to the earth at this very moment?

iNEO downloads a database of all the known Near Earth Objects (NEO) and calculates which one is the closest to the earth. Information listed includes the asteroids name, how close it is to the earth, its location in the sky, how bright it is and how fast it is moving.

In addition to the data about the asteroid a 3-D plot of its orbit is drawn so you can see just how close it is to the earth, where it came from and where it is going. You can zoom in and out, view the orbit from any angle and change the time.