NASA JPL Close Approach Scraper
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NASA JPL Close Approach Scraper
Track every asteroid and comet that swings past Earth using NASA JPL CNEOS data. Returns object designation, close approach date, nominal distance in astronomical units and lunar distances, relative velocity, and absolute magnitude H. Filter by date, distance, brightness, or target body.
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☄️ NASA JPL Close Approach Scraper
🚀 Export near-Earth object close approaches in seconds. Pull every asteroid and comet flyby tracked by NASA/JPL CNEOS, with distance, velocity, and brightness for each pass.
Track the asteroids and comets that swing close to Earth using data straight from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The CNEOS Close-Approach Data (CAD) service catalogues every known near-Earth object pass, and this Actor turns that catalogue into clean, structured records you can drop into a notebook, a dashboard, or an alerting pipeline.
Coverage: Pick any date window, distance threshold, brightness limit, and target body. The service spans approaches that have already happened and ones predicted decades into the future, for Earth, the Moon, Mercury through Pluto, or all bodies at once.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Astronomers and astrophotographers | Planning observation nights around upcoming flybys |
| Data scientists and students | Building near-Earth object datasets for analysis |
| Science communicators and educators | Sourcing real numbers for articles and lessons |
| Developers and hobbyists | Powering sky-watch apps, bots, and alert feeds |
📋 What the JPL Close Approach Scraper does
This Actor queries the NASA/JPL CNEOS Close-Approach Data API and returns one record per close approach. Each record carries the object designation and full name, the calendar and Julian close-approach date, the nominal, minimum, and maximum approach distance in astronomical units, a matching distance in lunar distances, the relative and infinity velocity in kilometres per second, the absolute magnitude H, the orbit solution ID, and the target body. A direct link to the object's JPL Small-Body Database page is included for every record.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: absoluteMagnitude, body, closeApproachDate, designation, fullName, infinityVelocityKmS, julianDate, maxDistanceAu, minDistanceAu, nominalDistanceAu, nominalDistanceLd, orbitId, relativeVelocityKmS, results, scrapedAt, sourceUrl. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
- Open the JPL Close Approach Scraper and click Try for free.
- Set your date window, distance threshold, and target body, or keep the defaults.
- Click Start and watch the records arrive.
- Browse the results in the table view or pull them through the Apify API into your own tools.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with NASA or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Only publicly available data collected.
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