The Spaceguard Centre is the National Near Earth Objects Information Centre (NNEOIC). With Jonathan R. Tate as its Director, it is the only organisation in the UK dedicated to addressing the hazard of Near Earth Objects.
NEOs are asteroids and comets that come close to, and sometimes collide with the Earth. Such impacts can have devastating effects – they have in the past and will in the future unless they use available technologies to prevent them.
Spaceguard UK operates the Spaceguard Centre (located in Knighton, Powys, UK) from where it provides timely information to the public, press, media and education about the threat of asteroid and comet impacts, and the ways in which they can predict and deal with them.
The Centre aims to develop and maintain a world-class facility for astronomical research and science education, and to bring the wonders of the universe to everyone in a fun and understandable way.
