List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2016

Below is the list of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2016.

Timeline of close approaches less than one Lunar distance from Earth in 2016

A list of known near-Earth asteroid close approaches less than 1 lunar distance (0.0025696 AU (384,410 km; 238,860 mi)) from Earth in 2016.^{[note 1]}

For reference, the radius of Earth is approximately 0.0000426 AU (6,370 km; 3,960 mi) or 0.0166 Lunar distances.
The orbit of geosynchronous satellites, however, is 0.000282 AU (42,200 km; 26,200 mi) or 0.110 Lunar distances. This year, 6 (possibly 7) asteroids traveled nearer than this, most notably 2016 DY₃₀, which approached a mere 1.25 Earth radii (8000 km) from the surface.

While most asteroids on this list are confirmed, well-observed unconfirmed objects with a 50% or greater chance of passing within 1 LD of the Earth are included as well.

Date of closest approach	Object	Nominal geocentric distance (AU)^{[note 2]}	Nominal geocentric distance (LD)	Size (m) (approximate)	(H)	Closer approach to Moon
2016-01-10	2016 AQ₁₆₄	0.000698 AU (104,400 km; 64,900 mi)	0.27	2–7	29.9^[1]
2016-01-12	2016 AH₁₆₄	0.000178 AU (26,600 km; 16,500 mi)	0.069	3–7	29.6^[2]
2016-01-13	2016 AN₁₆₅	0.00120 AU (180,000 km; 112,000 mi)	0.47	5–18	27.6^[3]
2016-01-14	2016 AN₁₆₄	0.000247 AU (37,000 km; 23,000 mi)	0.096	2–5	30.5^[4]
2016-02-06	2016 CG₁₈	0.00101 AU (151,000 km; 94,000 mi)	0.39	3–16	28.5^[5]
2016-02-10	2016 CW₂₆₄	0.00141 AU (211,000 km; 131,000 mi)	0.56	2–7	29.8^[6]
2016-02-11	P10tI8h	0.00176 AU (263,000 km; 164,000 mi)	0.69	2–3	30.7	?
2016-02-13	2016 CM₁₉₄	0.000517 AU (77,300 km; 48,100 mi)	0.20	7–21	27.5^[7]
2016-02-15	2016 DB	0.000828 AU (123,900 km; 77,000 mi)	0.32	4–14	28.5^[8]
2016-02-25	2016 DY₃₀	0.0000957 AU (14,320 km; 8,900 mi)	0.037	2–5	30.5^[9]
2016-02-26	2016 DK₂	0.00212 AU (317,000 km; 197,000 mi)	0.83	3–11	29.1^[10]
2016-02-29	2016 DA₃₁	0.00133 AU (199,000 km; 124,000 mi)	0.52	2–7	29.9^[11]	Yes
2016-03-03	2016 EK₁	0.00135 AU (202,000 km; 125,000 mi)	0.53	2–9	29.1^[12]	Yes
2016-03-04	2016 EL₁	0.00154 AU (230,000 km; 143,000 mi)	0.60	5–20	27.8^[13]
2016-03-08	2016 EV₂₈	0.00103 AU (154,000 km; 96,000 mi)	0.40	4–10	28.3^[14]
2016-03-10	2016 EN₁₅₇	0.00216 AU (323,000 km; 201,000 mi)	0.84	5–9	28.1^[15]
2016-03-11	2016 EF₁₉₅	0.000214 AU (32,000 km; 19,900 mi)	0.082	16–31	25.6^[16]
2016-03-14	2016 FC₁	0.00112 AU (168,000 km; 104,000 mi)	0.44	4–8	29.1^[17]
2016-03-21	2016 FN₅₆	0.00257 AU (384,000 km; 239,000 mi)	0.9995^{[note 3]}	35–86	24.2^[18]	Yes?
2016-03-23	2016 FZ₁₃	0.00252 AU (377,000 km; 234,000 mi)	0.98	4–10	28.3^[19]	Yes
2016-03-25	2016 FU₆	0.00120 AU (180,000 km; 112,000 mi)	0.47	4–9	29.0^[20]
2016-03-28	BeUc1Ig	0.00256 AU (383,000 km; 238,000 mi)	0.99	3–9	29.3	?
2016-03-28	2016 FE₁₅	0.00181 AU (271,000 km; 168,000 mi)	0.70	4–12	28.8^[21]	Yes
2016-04-01	XGB1CE8	0.000336 AU (50,300 km; 31,200 mi)	0.13	3–9	29.3	?
2016-04-01	2016 GS₁₃₄	0.00133 AU (199,000 km; 124,000 mi)	0.52	5–13	27.9^[22]
2016-04-04	2016 GN₁₃₄	0.000382 AU (57,100 km; 35,500 mi)	0.19	1–5	30.1^[23]
2016-04-05	2016 FW₁₃	0.00210 AU (314,000 km; 195,000 mi)	0.82	2–7	29.4^[24]
2016-04-06	2016 GO₂₀₆	0.00222 AU (332,000 km; 206,000 mi)	0.86	9–30	26.5
2016-04-08	2016 GO₁₃₄	0.00222 AU (332,000 km; 206,000 mi)	0.86	5–18	27.3^[25]
2016-05-05	2016 JS₅	0.00136 AU (203,000 km; 126,000 mi)	0.53	1–5	30.6^[26]
2016-06-04	2016 LR₅₁	0.00235 AU (352,000 km; 218,000 mi)	0.91	7–24	27.4^[27]	Yes
2016-06-07	2016 LT₁	0.000966 AU (144,500 km; 89,800 mi)	0.38	3–10	29.0^[28]
2016-06-09	2016 LP₁₀	0.000479 AU (71,700 km; 44,500 mi)	0.20	2–8	29.5^[29]
2016-07-07	2016 NJ₂₂	0.00191 AU (286,000 km; 178,000 mi)	0.74	4–16	28.3^[30]
2016-07-11	2016 NK₂₂	0.00177 AU (265,000 km; 165,000 mi)	0.69	3–12	28.9^[31]
2016-08-09	DT16P09	0.000432 AU (64,600 km; 40,200 mi)	0.17	1–3	32.9	?
2016-08-28	2016 QA₂	0.000579 AU (86,600 km; 53,800 mi)	0.23	18–69	25.2^[32]
2016-09-02	2016 RR₁	0.000865 AU (129,400 km; 80,400 mi)	0.34	7–19	27.7^[33]
2016-09-04	2016 RS₁	0.00127 AU (190,000 km; 118,000 mi)	0.50	3–11	29.1^[34]
2016-09-07	2016 RB₁	0.000271 AU (40,500 km; 25,200 mi)	0.11	6–18	27.8^[35]
2016-09-11	2016 RN₄₁	0.000159 AU (23,800 km; 14,800 mi)	0.062	1–5	31.0^[36]
2016-09-21	2016 SJ	0.000998 AU (149,300 km; 92,800 mi)	0.39	3–9	29.0^[37]
2016-09-24	2016 SU₂	0.00235 AU (352,000 km; 218,000 mi)	0.91	6–19	27.8^[38]
2016-09-25	2016 SA₂	0.00205 AU (307,000 km; 191,000 mi)	0.80	5–16	28.2^[39]
2016-09-30	2016 TD	0.00151 AU (226,000 km; 140,000 mi)	0.59	5–16	28.2^[40]
2016-10-03	2016 TH	0.000858 AU (128,400 km; 79,800 mi)	0.33	3–9	29.4^[41]
2016-10-08	2016 TG₉₄	0.00145 AU (217,000 km; 135,000 mi)	0.56	3–8	29.7^[42]
2016-10-10	2016 TS₅₄	0.000502 AU (75,100 km; 46,700 mi)	0.20	6–19	27.8^[43]
2016-10-11	2016 TB₁₉	0.00212 AU (317,000 km; 197,000 mi)	0.82	4–11	28.9^[44]
2016-10-14	XT9D939	0.00241 AU (361,000 km; 224,000 mi)	0.94^{[note 4]}	7–20	27.7
2016-10-17	2016 UD	0.000485 AU (72,600 km; 45,100 mi)	0.19	9–34	26.6^[45]
2016-10-19	XUA7AB3	0.00233 AU (349,000 km; 217,000 mi)	0.91^{[note 5]}	4–13	28.6
2016-11-02	2016 VA	0.000630 AU (94,200 km; 58,600 mi)	0.24	6–27	27.3^[46]
2016-11-05	XV88D4F	0.000245 AU (36,700 km; 22,800 mi)	0.095^{[note 6]}	2–7	30.0
2016-11-07	2016 VB₁	0.00179 AU (268,000 km; 166,000 mi)	0.70	4–15	28.4^[47]
2016-11-10	2016 VF₁₈	0.000468 AU (70,000 km; 43,500 mi)	0.18	2–8	29.9^[48]
2016-11-17	2016 WT	0.00129 AU (193,000 km; 120,000 mi)	0.50	2–8	29.7^[49]
2016-11-21	2016 WT₃	0.00243 AU (364,000 km; 226,000 mi)	0.94	4–13	28.6^[50]
2016-11-25	2016 WW₂	0.000894 AU (133,700 km; 83,100 mi)	0.35	3–11	29.0^[51]
2016-11-30	XXAA162	0.000577 AU (86,300 km; 53,600 mi)	0.22^{[note 7]}	3–9	29.3

Notes

↑ For a list of current Earth close approaches see NEO Earth Close Approaches
↑ Distance from the center of Earth to the center of the object. See the NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics Glossary: Geocentric. Earth has a radius of approximately 6,400 km.
↑ The nominal approach of 2016 FN56 to Earth was 0.0025694 AU, or roughly 23.5 kilometers closer than 1 Lunar distance. However, the error in this close approach totals roughly 0.000207 AU or 31,000 kilometers, making the chance that it actually did pass within 1 Lunar distance of Earth an almost exact 50-50 chance- a 49.9994%:50.0006% chance, to be specific.
↑ distance error: 0.000244 AU, approach range: 0.84 to 1.03 LD
↑ distance error: 0.000609 AU, approach range: 0.67 to 1.14 LD
↑ distance error: 0.0000808 AU, approach range: 0.064 to 0.13 LD
↑ distance error: 0.000000326 AU, approach range: 0.22 to 0.22 LD

Timeline of close approaches less than one Lunar distance from the Moon in 2016

The number of asteroids listed here are significantly less than those of asteroids that approach Earth for several reasons. Asteroids that approach Earth not only move faster, but are brighter and are easier to detect with modern surveys because:

Asteroids that come closer to Earth are a higher priority to confirm, and only confirmed asteroids are listed with a lunocentric approach distance.
Those that closely approach the Moon are frequently lost in its glare, making them harder to confirm. They are easier to discover during the new Moon, when the Moon is too close to the Sun to detect asteroids while they are near the Moon.

These factors severely limit the amount of Moon-approaching asteroids, to a level many times lower than the asteroids detected passing as close to Earth.

Date of closest approach	Object	Nominal lunocentric distance (AU)^{[note2 1]}	Nominal lunocentric distance (LD)	Size (m) (approximate)	(H)	approach distance to Earth (LD)
2016-01-01	2016 AN₆₆	0.00214 AU (320,000 km; 199,000 mi)	0.83	7–24	27.3^[52]	1.45
2016-01-10	2016 AQ₁₆₄	0.00125 AU (187,000 km; 116,000 mi)	0.49	2–7	29.9^[1]	0.27
2016-01-11	2016 AH₁₆₄	0.000632 AU (94,500 km; 58,700 mi)	0.25	3–7	29.7^[2]	0.069
2016-02-07	2016 CG₁₈	0.00141 AU (211,000 km; 131,000 mi)	0.55	3–16	28.5^[5]	0.39
2016-02-10	2016 CW₂₆₄	0.00195 AU (292,000 km; 181,000 mi)	0.76	2–7	29.8^[6]	0.56
2016-02-13	2016 CM₁₉₄	0.00204 AU (305,000 km; 190,000 mi)	0.79	7–21	27.5^[7]	0.20
2016-02-26	2016 DY₃₀	0.00189 AU (283,000 km; 176,000 mi)	0.74	2–5	30.5^[9]	0.037
2016-02-29	2016 DA₃₁	0.00127 AU (190,000 km; 118,000 mi)	0.49	2–7	29.9^[11]	0.52
2016-03-03	2016 EK₁	0.00100 AU (150,000 km; 93,000 mi)	0.39	2–9	29.1^[12]	0.53
2016-03-04	2016 EL₁	0.00158 AU (236,000 km; 147,000 mi)	0.61	5–20	27.8^[13]	0.60
2016-03-05	2016 EG₁	0.00256 AU (383,000 km; 238,000 mi)	0.998	3–10	29.1^[53]	1.14
2016-03-08	2016 EV₂₈	0.00116 AU (174,000 km; 108,000 mi)	0.45	4–10	28.5^[14]	0.40
2016-03-09	2016 EN₁₅₇	0.00228 AU (341,000 km; 212,000 mi)	0.89	5–9	28.0^[15]	0.84
2016-03-10	2016 EF₁₉₅	0.00160 AU (239,000 km; 149,000 mi)	0.62	16–31	25.5^[16]	0.082
2016-03-14	2016 FC₁	0.00131 AU (196,000 km; 122,000 mi)	0.51	4–8	29.1^[17]	0.44
2016-03-21	2016 FN₅₆	0.00256 AU (383,000 km; 238,000 mi)	0.995^{[note2 2]}	35–86	24.2^[18]	0.9995
2016-03-24	2016 FZ₁₃	0.000942 AU (140,900 km; 87,600 mi)	0.37	4–10	28.3^[19]	0.98
2016-03-26	2016 FU₆	0.00213 AU (319,000 km; 198,000 mi)	0.83	4–9	28.9^[20]	0.47
2016-03-28	2016 FE₁₅	0.00124 AU (186,000 km; 115,000 mi)	0.48	4–12	28.8^[21]	0.70
2016-04-03	2016 FB₁₃	0.00232 AU (347,000 km; 216,000 mi)	0.90	10–31	26.7^[54]	1.23
2016-04-04	2016 GN₁₃₄	0.00220 AU (329,000 km; 205,000 mi)	0.86	1–5	30.3^[23]	0.19
2016-04-11	2016 FV₁₃	0.00232 AU (347,000 km; 216,000 mi)	0.90	13–43	26.0^[55]	1.81
2016-05-06	2016 JS₅	0.00160 AU (239,000 km; 149,000 mi)	0.62	1–5	30.6^[26]	0.53
2016-06-04	2016 LR₅₁	0.00215 AU (322,000 km; 200,000 mi)	0.84	7–24	27.4^[27]	0.91
2016-06-09	2016 LP₁₀	0.00204 AU (305,000 km; 190,000 mi)	0.80	2–8	29.5^[29]	0.20
2016-09-02	2016 RS₁	0.00242 AU (362,000 km; 225,000 mi)	0.94	3–11	29.1^[34]	0.50
2016-09-07	2016 RK₄₀	0.00128 AU (191,000 km; 119,000 mi)	0.50	5–28	27.4^[56]	1.35
2016-09-08	2016 RB₁	0.00192 AU (287,000 km; 178,000 mi)	0.75	6–18	27.8^[35]	0.11
2016-09-10	2016 SF₁	0.00156 AU (233,000 km; 145,000 mi)	0.61	24–80	24.6^[57]	1.32
2016-09-10	2016 RE₃₄	0.00217 AU (325,000 km; 202,000 mi)	0.84	5–15	28.3^[58]	1.19
2016-10-03	2016 TH	0.000908 AU (135,800 km; 84,400 mi)	0.35	3–9	29.4^[41]	0.33
2016-10-07	2016 TG₉₄	0.00179 AU (268,000 km; 166,000 mi)	0.70	3–8	29.7^[42]	0.56
2016-10-10	2016 TS₅₄	0.00210 AU (314,000 km; 195,000 mi)	0.82	6–18	27.9^[43]	0.20
2016-10-18	2016 UD	0.00107 AU (160,000 km; 99,000 mi)	0.42	10–33	26.6^[45]	0.19
2016-11-02	2016 VA	0.00229 AU (343,000 km; 213,000 mi)	0.89	6–27	27.3^[46]	0.24
2016-11-05	XV88D4F	0.00251 AU (375,000 km; 233,000 mi)	0.98	2–7	30.0	0.095
2016-11-08	2016 VB₁	0.00232 AU (347,000 km; 216,000 mi)	0.90	4–15	28.4^[47]	0.70
2016-11-10	2016 VF₁₈	0.00220 AU (329,000 km; 205,000 mi)	0.85	2–8	29.9^[48]	0.18
2016-11-17	2016 WY	0.00242 AU (362,000 km; 225,000 mi)	0.94	3–10	29.3^[59]	1.73
2016-11-17	2016 WT	0.00229 AU (343,000 km; 213,000 mi)	0.89	2–8	29.7^[49]	0.50
2016-11-25	2016 WW₂	0.000997 AU (149,100 km; 92,700 mi)	0.39	3–11	29.0^[51]	0.35
2016-11-27	XWA260E	0.00256 AU (383,000 km; 238,000 mi)	0.997^{[note2 3]}	5–15	28.3	1.12
2016-11-30	XXAA162	0.00193 AU (289,000 km; 179,000 mi)	0.75	3–9	29.3	0.22

Notes

↑ Distance from the center of the Moon to the center of the object. the Moon has a radius of approximately 1,740 km.
↑ For the Moon as well, the exact approach distance for 2016 FN₅₆ is in high error, but with a higher certainty than to Earth: The error is slightly higher at 0.000208 AU, but as the approach distance is 0.0045 LD closer, the likelihood of a less-than-1-LD approach is nearly 0.6% higher.
↑ distance error: 0.00000445 AU, approach range: 0.995 to 0.9989 LD

Additional examples

An example list of near-Earth asteroids that passed more than 1 lunar distance (384,400 km or 0.00256 AU) from Earth in 2016.

2015 YC₂ (~102 meters in diameter) passed 4.92 Lunar distances (1.9 million km) from Earth on 15 January 2016.
XBBE860 (~8 meters in diameter) passed 1.13 lunar distances (435,000 km) from Earth on 1 February 2016.
P10tc2W (~10 meters in diameter) passed 1.02 lunar distances (391,000 km) from Earth on 6 March 2016
2013 TX68 (~30 meters in diameter) may have passed as close as 0.07 lunar distances (30,000 km) from Earth around 5–6 March 2016, but the best fitting orbital solution suggests that it passed roughly 11 lunar distances (4 million km) from Earth around 8 March 2016. 2013 TX68 has not been observed since 2013 and was not recovered during the 2016 passage.
252P/LINEAR (~900 meters in diameter) passed 13.9 lunar distances (5.3 million km) from Earth on 21 March 2016
Comet P/2016 BA14 (~1000 meters in diameter) passed 9.2 lunar distances (3.5 million km) from Earth on 22 March 2016.^[60]
2014 JG₅₅ (~6 meters in diameter) has a minimum estimated approach on May 8, 2016 of 0.82 lunar distances (315,000 km) from Earth. However the best fit calculates an approach of 7.6 lunar distances (2.9 million km) from Earth.
2009 DL₄₆ (~200 meters in diameter) passed 6.2 lunar distances (2.4 million km) from Earth on May 24, 2016.
2016 FE₁₃ (~23 meters in diameter) passed 27.98 lunar distances (10.7 million km) from Earth on March 26, 2016^[61]
2016 PQ (~30 meters in diameter) passed 9.80 lunar distances (3.8 million km) from Earth on August 7, 2016.
2016 SW₃ (~8 meters in diameter) passed between 1.0012 and 1.0029 lunar distances (385,000 km) from Earth on September 26, 2016.
2016 UQ₃₆ (~11 meters in diameter) passed 1.033 lunar distances (397,000 km) from Earth on October 24, 2016

Other objects

XF38FAC (Satellite 2015-007B) with an observation arc of only 17 minutes was estimated to have a chance of impacting Earth at 16:51 on 20 March 2016,^[62] but turned out to be the SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage that sent Deep Space Climate Observatory out to L1.

References

1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 AQ164)" (last observation: 2016-01-14).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 AH164)" (last observation: 2016-01-13).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 AN165)" (last observation: 2016-01-14).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 AN164)" (last observation: 2016-01-14).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 CG18)" (last observation: 2016-02-05).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 CW264)" (last observation: 2016-02-12).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 CM194)" (last observation: 2016-02-13).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 DB)" (last observation: 2016-02-17).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 DY30)" (last observation: 2016-02-27).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 DK2)" (last observation: 2016-03-01).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 DA31)" (last observation: 2016-02-29).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 EK1)" (last observation: 2016-03-03).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 EL1)" (last observation: 2016-03-03).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 EV28)" (last observation: 2016-03-07).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 EN157)" (last observation: 2016-03-15).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 EF195)" (last observation: 2016-03-17).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 FC1)" (last observation: 2016-03-18).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 FN56)" (last observation: 2016-04-05).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 FZ13)" (last observation: 2016-04-06).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 FU6)" (last observation: 2016-03-28).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 FE15)" (last observation: 2016-04-03).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 GS134)" (last observation: 2016-04-07).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 GN134)" (last observation: 2016-04-07).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 FW13)" (last observation: 2016-04-03).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 GO134)" (last observation: 2016-04-08).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 JS5)" (last observation: 2016-05-05).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 LR51)" (last observation: 2016-06-13).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 LT1)" (last observation: 2016-06-06).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 LP10)" (last observation: 2016-06-09).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 NJ22)" (last observation: 2016-07-10).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 NK22)" (last observation: 2016-07-10).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 QA2)" (last observation: 2016-08-29).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 RR1)" (last observation: 2016-09-06).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 RS1)" (last observation: 2016-09-06).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 RB1)" (last observation: 2016-09-06).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 RN41)" (last observation: 2016-09-11).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 SJ)" (last observation: 2016-09-24).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 SU2)" (last observation: 2016-09-27).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 SA2)" (last observation: 2016-09-26).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 TD)" (last observation: 2016-10-02).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 TH)" (last observation: 2016-10-03).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 TG94)" (last observation: 2016-10-10).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 TS54)" (last observation: 2016-10-12).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 TB19)" (last observation: 2016-10-10).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 UD)" (last observation: 2016-10-20).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 VA)" (last observation: 2016-11-01).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 VB1)" (last observation: 2016-11-06).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 VF18)" (last observation: 2016-11-11).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 WT)" (last observation: 2016-11-21).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 WT3)" (last observation: 2016-11-25).
1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 Ww2)" (last observation: 2016-11-24).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 AN66)" (last observation: 2016-01-16).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 EG1)" (last observation: 2016-03-04).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 FB13)" (last observation: 2016-04-02).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 FV13)" (last observation: 2016-04-10).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 RK40)" (last observation: 2016-09-14).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 SF1)" (last observation: 2016-09-26).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 RE34)" (last observation: 2016-09-17).
↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2016 WY)" (last observation: 2016-11-21).
↑ Comet Flying by Earth Observed with Radar and Infrared. NASA press release. 24 March 2016.
↑ Near Earth Objects - Dynamic Site 2016FE13 ▹ CLOSE APPROACHES
↑ XF38FAC at Project Pluto

2016 in space

Spacecraft launches

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (Mars orbiter)
Schiaparelli EDM lander (Mars lander)
Hitomi (X-ray observatory)
OSIRIS-REx (mission to asteroid)

Selected NEOs

Planets

Exoplanets	HD 19467 b 2MASS J2126-8140 BD+20594b Pr 0211-c TRAPPIST-1b TRAPPIST-1c TRAPPIST-1d Kepler-1229b Kepler-1520b Kepler-1638b Kepler-1647b Kepler-20g V830 Tau b Qatar-3b Qatar-4b Qatar-5b K2-33b HIP 41378 b HIP 41378 c HIP 41378 d HIP 41378 e HIP 41378 f HD 131399 Ab HD 164922 c KELT-11b K2-72b K2-72c K2-72d K2-72e Proxima Centauri b 38 Virginis b TW Hydrae b OGLE-2007-BLG-349(AB)b Gliese 536 b

Solar	Planet Nine (hypothesized)

Rogue	2MASS J1119–1137

Space exploration

Akatsuki: entered Venus orbit
Juno: entered Jupiter orbit
Rosetta / Philae: end of mission to comet 67P

Miscellaneous

Category:2015 in space — Category:2016 in space — Category:2017 in space

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List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2016

Timeline of close approaches less than one Lunar distance from Earth in 2016

Notes

Timeline of close approaches less than one Lunar distance from the Moon in 2016

Notes

Additional examples

Other objects

See also

References