Project Perigee

Interactive NEO impact simulation explorer
By Ákos Lukács, Daniel Brendan Woods, and Erik Gasteiger.
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List NEO feed
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Pick scenario (today / historical / custom)
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Choose impact location
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LAUNCH 3D impact

NEO Feed

Stored locally. Get one at api.nasa.gov
Closest approaches by miss distance


Objects
Closest miss (km)
Potentially hazardous

Custom asteroid

Rough educational estimate (TNT equivalent and ballpark crater)
Mass (kg)
Kinetic energy (TNT eq.)
Crater diameter (km)

Impact location




About this tool

Created for NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025 — Meteor Madness: spaceappschallenge.org/2025/challenges/meteor-madness/. It uses NASA NeoWs for NEO data and queries WorldPop via a small API to estimate exposed population by ring distance. For 3D visualization, see the linked viewer.

GitHub

Open on GitHub github.com/alukacs03/spaceapps2025_45TR4L
Portions of this project were generated with the assistance of AI coding tools.