NASA has even created an Asteroid watch website with detailed listings of discovered objects as well as a detailed Impact risk chart which lists the year 2020 as the earliest increased activity risk.ĭuring the Obama administration, plans were developed for NASA to launch a robotic probe in 2021 toward a near-Earth asteroid the current target is a 1,300-foot-wide (400 m) rock called 2008 EV5. Inside Mission Control at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jim Dobson