NASA Asteroid Watch Widget is a lightweight Yahoo! widget built specifically for informing you about the asteroids and comets that will get relatively close to the Earth’s surface.

It boasts a clean and intuitive layout that allows you to perform most operations with just a few clicks.

The gadget offers information about each asteroid or comet, namely date, approximate diameter, and distance.

What's more, you can find details about the name of each object by simply hovering the mouse cursor over its encounter date, and view additional information by accessing a website via your default web browser.

Other options offered by the Yahoo! environment give you the possibility to prevent the windows from being dragged, set the opacity level, and ignore mouse events.

You can also make the gadget stay on top of other applications, and this proves to pretty useful, especially when dealing with multiple tools at the same time. What’s more, you can hide or close the widget, and move it to any area of the screen.

Since it doesn’t comprise any configuration settings of its own, even rookies can master the process with just a few clicks.

During our testing we have noticed that NASA Asteroid Watch Widget provides good image quality, and no errors showed up throughout the entire process. As it would be expected from such a small utility, it remains light on system resources, so it doesn’t burden the overall performance of the computer, nor interfere with other programs’ functionality.

To sum things up, NASA Asteroid Watch Widget offers a simple software solution when it comes to helping you keep an eye on the date when asteroids and comets get close to the Earth’s surface.