Asteroid Gallery

2008 TC₃ (The first asteroid to be discovered before impacting Earth)

2007 EH (A Very Fast Moving Object!)

2006 RH₁₂₀ ( = 6R10DB9) (A second moon for the Earth?)

2006 CJ (Recovery at 2nd opposition)

2006 BV₃₉ (Extremely small NEO caught inside the orbit of the Moon)

2005 WN₃ (Extremely small NEO caught inside the orbit of the Moon)

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2005 UW₅ (Small NEO observed inside the orbit of the Moon)

2005 AH & 2005 AJ (Two Main Belt discoveries made in the same field of view)

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2004 OH_9, 2004 OJ_9, 2004 PN₂ and 2004 PO₉₅ 
(a relay race of minor planet discoveries made at Great Shefford)

2004 OD₄ (Small Apollo discovered a day after passing between Earth and Moon)

(99942) Apophis = 2004 MN4 (First minor planet to have a Torino Scale 4 Earth impact prediction)

2004 MC (Amor caught 12 days before close approach to Earth by visiting astronomers)

2004 LA₁₀ (First Spacewatch FMO Project discovery by a UK amateur)

2004 GC₁₉ (Imaging a fast moving 20th mag. Apollo in a rich star field with Astrometrica)

2004 FY₃₁ (Potentially hazardous asteroid passing by Earth)

2004 FK₅ (Amor at perihelion one week before close approach to Earth)

2004 ER₂₁ (Aten making close approach)

2004 EL₂₀ (very small Aten at closest point to Earth, 5.7 lunar distances)

2004 DA₅₃ (very small Aten after approach to Earth to within 1.3 lunar distances)

2004 DN₂₅ (fourth minor planet discovery made at Great Shefford)

2004 DF₂ (small Apollo rapidly receding from Earth) 

(90482) Orcus = 2004 DW (Large Kuiper belt object) 

2004 CZ₁ (fast moving small Apollo makes close approach)

2004 CQ (small Amor making close approach to Earth)

2004 AS₁ (When  initial predictions go wrong...)

2003 YG₁₁₈ (Potentially hazardous Apollo)

2003 XH₁₀ (Apollo approaching to within 7 lunar distances)

2003 XJ₇ (Apollo making very close approach to within 12 Earth diameters)

2003 WT₁₅₃ (small Aten making close approach, possible space junk?)

2003 UB₃₁₃ (the largest object discovered in the Solar system since Neptune in 1846)

2003 UT₅₅ (small Aten making close approach to Earth)

2003 TQ₃ (third asteroid discovered at Great Shefford)

2003 SQ₂₂₂ (extremely small NEO making closest ever recorded approach to Earth)

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2003 SM₂₁₅ (very small NEO making close approach to Earth)

(2 sets of images)

2003 SR₈₄

2003 RV₁₀ (second asteroid discovered at Great Shefford)

2003 RU₁₁ (small Aten making close approach to Earth)

2003 QB₃₀

2003 QC₁₀ & M35

(in the Deep Sky Gallery)

2003 NL₈ (First asteroid discovered at Great Shefford)

2003 NZ₆ (A personal account of a brief encounter with an Aten)

2003 LP₆

2002 NY₄₀

2002 AA₂₉ (Earth co-orbital asteroid)

2000 EV₇₀ (confirmation of recovery of PHA)

2000 ED₁₄ (recovery 2003 Feb)