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One of my Raspberry Pi computers logs on to NASA servers and downloads (amongst other things) the Near Earth Object data for a 36 day period consisting of the current date, the preceding seven days and the following twenty-eight days. It then turns this data into a scatter graph with time in the X axis and distance in the Y. Below this are tables which name the objects, their estimated size, velocity, distance and magnitude (brightness), with links to the NEO database which describes them in much more detail. It then uploads this as a wiki-formatted web page to my website.

The 'Preceding 7 Days' portion of the graph is interesting, things tend to pop in there pretty close to Earth because they were only discovered at or after their closest approach. Anything with a velocity of around 12km/s or less is probably space junk.
https://philip-p-ide.uk/doku.php/blog/aardvaark/neo