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Asteroids NeoWs

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Asteroids - NeoWs

NeoWs (Near Earth Object Web Service) is a RESTful web service for near earth Asteroid information. With NeoWs a user can: search for Asteroids based on their closest approach date to Earth, lookup a specific Asteroid with its NASA JPL small body id, as well as browse the overall data-set.Data-set: All the data is from the NASA JPL Asteroid team (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/).This API is maintained by SpaceRocks Team: David Greenfield, Arezu Sarvestani, Jason English and Peter Baunach.

Neo - Feed

Retrieve a list of Asteroids based on their closest approach date to Earth. GET https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=START_DATE&end_date=END_DATE&api_key=API_KEY

Query Parameters

Parameter Type Default Description
start_dateYYYY-MM-DDnoneStarting date for asteroid search
end_dateYYYY-MM-DD7 days after start_dateEnding date for asteroid search
api_keystringDEMO_KEYapi.nasa.gov key for expanded usage

Example query

https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=2015-09-07&end_date=2015-09-08&api_key=DEMO_KEY

Neo - Lookup

Lookup a specific Asteroid based on its NASA JPL small body (SPK-ID) ID GET https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/neo/

Path Parameters

Parameter Type Default Description
asteroid_id int none Asteroid SPK-ID correlates to the NASA JPL small body
api_keystringDEMO_KEYapi.nasa.gov key for expanded usage

Example query

https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/neo/3542519?api_key=DEMO_KEY

Neo - Browse

Browse the overall Asteroid data-set GET https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/neo/browse/

Example query

https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/neo/browse?api_key=DEMO_KEY


1. Asteroids NeoWs

GET https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date={{START_DATE}}&end_date={{END_DATE}}



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