NASA NeoWs · Example Payload

Get Asteroid Feed

NASAAsteroidsNear Earth ObjectsSpaceScienceOpen DataPlanetary Defense

Get Asteroid Feed is an example object payload from NASA NeoWs, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

summaryrequestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "summary": "GET /feed — asteroid close-approach feed for a 7-day window",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=2015-09-07&end_date=2015-09-14&api_key=DEMO_KEY"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "links": {
        "next": "http://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=2015-09-08&end_date=2015-09-15&detailed=false&api_key=DEMO_KEY",
        "previous": "http://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=2015-08-31&end_date=2015-09-07&detailed=false&api_key=DEMO_KEY",
        "self": "http://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=2015-09-07&end_date=2015-09-14&detailed=false&api_key=DEMO_KEY"
      },
      "element_count": 2,
      "near_earth_objects": {
        "2015-09-08": [
          {
            "id": "2465633",
            "neo_reference_id": "2465633",
            "name": "465633 (2009 JR5)",
            "name_limited": "465633",
            "designation": "465633",
            "nasa_jpl_url": "http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2465633",
            "absolute_magnitude_h": 20.36,
            "estimated_diameter": {
              "kilometers": {
                "estimated_diameter_min": 0.1981015754,
                "estimated_diameter_max": 0.4429938603
              },
              "meters": {
                "estimated_diameter_min": 198.1015754,
                "estimated_diameter_max": 442.9938603
              },
              "miles": {
                "estimated_diameter_min": 0.1230715618,
                "estimated_diameter_max": 0.2752977006
              },
              "feet": {
                "estimated_diameter_min": 649.9395128,
                "estimated_diameter_max": 1453.0638748
              }
            },
            "is_potentially_hazardous_asteroid": true,
            "is_sentry_object": false,
            "close_approach_data": [
              {
                "close_approach_date": "2015-09-08",
                "close_approach_date_full": "2015-Sep-08 20:28",
                "epoch_date_close_approach": 1441744080000,
                "orbiting_body": "Earth",
                "relative_velocity": {
                  "kilometers_per_second": "17.8743831928",
                  "kilometers_per_hour": "64347.7795141",
                  "miles_per_hour": "39974.1870736"
                },
                "miss_distance": {
                  "astronomical": "0.3027469592",
                  "lunar": "117.768...9208",
                  "kilometers": "45290298.225",
                  "miles": "28146982.6651"
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}