New app: NEOTrack, The Near Earth Object Tracker

[brettohland]

hows the closest object on approach to Earth today according to NASA's Near Earth Object Webservice (NeoWs) API.

Shows the following information:

In the lefthand pane:

• The estimated max size of the asteroid (diameter in kilometres or metres)
• A green border denotes the object is safe, an orange border means it's potentially dangerous[^1]

Righthand pane:

• The official name of the asteroid
• V: The relative velocity in Kilometres per Second
• D: The closest approach distance in Lunar Units (LU)
• O: The asteroid's orbiting body

[^1]: A potentially hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object whose orbit brings it within 4.7 million miles (7.5 million km) of Earth’s orbit, and is greater than 500 feet (140 meters) in size.