Asteroid Close Approach
Upcoming close approaches
$1.99 · Designed for iPhone
Stay informed about the most recent near-Earth asteroid encounters—right from your iPhone or on your Apple Watch. Easily check the upcoming dates and times of close approaches, along with their distances, velocities, magnitudes, and estimated impact energies in kilotons.
Dive into NASA’s Sentry database, a powerful collision monitoring system that continuously scans the latest asteroid catalog for any potential impacts within the next 100 years. Curious about an asteroid’s mass and energy? Use the built-in calculator to estimate these figures based on its absolute magnitude and approach speed.
Features:
• Latest Encounters on Your Wrist: View real-time asteroid data at a glance on your Apple Watch.
• Comprehensive Tracking: Check each asteroid’s approach date, distance, velocity, magnitude, and potential impact energy.
• Sentry Database Access: Keep tabs on NASA’s up-to-date collision predictions for the next century.
• Asteroid Mass & Energy Calculator: Estimate physical properties and potential impact energy with a simple input of magnitude and speed.
Stay informed, prepared, and captivated by the wonders of our cosmic neighborhood—anytime, anywhere.
This app’s overall rating was recently reset.
- Fixed the volume conversion in the calculator.
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Information
- Seller
- Arpacore B.V.
- Size
- 35.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 14.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 14.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 7.4 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Arpacore B.V.
