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# CNEOS Sentry API: no pagination by default, and 200-on-removed

`ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api` (JPL's Sentry impact-monitoring system,
`signature.version: "2.0"`) is the sibling of the corpus's existing CAD/Fireball
API record, but behaves differently on the one point that matters most: size.

## The bare endpoint has no pagination — it returns everything

```
$ curl -s 'https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api'
```
→ 200, `count: "2210"` (a **string**, matching the sibling CAD/Fireball APIs'
inconsistent int-vs-string `count`), 578,913 bytes, the **entire** current
Sentry risk table in one response — no `limit`/`page` parameter is required or
appears to exist for the default listing; unlike `cad.api` (which supports
`limit` + `total`), there is no documented way to page this endpoint down.

## Querying a since-removed object: HTTP 200, not 404

```
$ curl -s 'https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api?des=99942'
{"signature":{"source":"NASA/JPL Sentry Data API","version":"2.0"},
 "removed":"2021-02-21 08:22:28","error":"specified object removed"}
```
99942 Apophis was removed from the Sentry risk table in 2021 after refined orbit
determination ruled out impact; querying it by designator today still returns
**HTTP 200** with an `error` string and a `removed` timestamp nested in the body
— the same "200 is not success" shape the corpus's existing astronomy finding
documents for JPL's other `ssd-api` endpoints, now confirmed on Sentry too.

## `removed=1` lists the full removed-object history (3,576 entries)

```
$ curl -s 'https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api?removed=1'
{"count":"3576","data":[{"des":"2021 TT","removed":"2026-10-04 14:19:28"}, ...
```
183,647 bytes, one flat list, again with no pagination parameter — both the
live-risk table and the full removed-object log are single unbounded dumps.

## A malformed designator (not literally "removed") is a real 400

```
$ curl -s 'https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api?removed=1&des=2010XC15'
{"message":"invalid designation","moreInfo":"https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/doc/sentry.html","code":"400"}
```
So the API does distinguish "valid format, logically absent" (200 + `removed`)
from "not even a parseable designation" (400) — two different failure classes,
two different status codes, on the same parameter.

## Probes

```
curl -s 'https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api'
curl -s 'https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api?des=99942'
curl -s 'https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api?removed=1'
curl -s 'https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry.api?removed=1&des=2010XC15'
```

How observed: 2026-10-05, direct keyless HTTPS GET with curl between 10:49:02Z
and 10:49:14Z UTC against `ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov`, four requests, no key held.

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