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The number of known Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) has continued to grow in the last decade. Follow-up and recovery of newly discovered objects, as well as new astrometry at second or third…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ovidiu Vaduvescu , Mirel Birlan

Enhancements to the science data processing pipeline of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) mission, collectively known as NEOWISE, resulted in the detection of $>$158,000 minor planets in four infrared wavelengths during the fully…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Mainzer , T. Grav , J. Masiero , J. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , R. S. McMillan , C. R. Nugent , D. Tholen , R. Walker , E. L. Wright

We propose a low-cost robotic optical survey aimed at $1-300$ m Near Earth Objects (NEO) based on four state-of-the-art telescopes having extremely wide field of view. The small Near-Earth Asteroids (NEA) represent a potential risk but also…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-29 P. Vereš , J. Tóth , R. Jedicke , J. Tonry , L. Denneau , R. Wainscoat , L. Kornoš , J. Šilha

We present the preliminary results of an analysis of the sub-populations within the near-Earth asteroids, including the Atens, Apollos, Amors, and those that are considered potentially hazardous using data from the Wide-field Infrared…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Mainzer , T. Grav , J. Masiero , J. Bauer , R. S. McMillan , J. Giorgini , T. Spahr , R. M. Cutri , D. J. Tholen , R. Jedicke , R. Walker , E. Wright , C. R. Nugent

Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are discovered daily, mainly by few major surveys, nevertheless many of them remain unobserved for years, even decades. Even so, there is room for new discoveries, including those submitted by smaller projects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 D. Copandean , O. Vaduvescu , D. Gorgan

We studied the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) candidates posted on the Minor Planet Center's Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP) between years 2013 and 2016. Out of more than 17,000 NEA candidates, while the majority became either new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-12 Peter Vereš , Matthew J. Payne , Matthew J. Holman , Davide Farnocchia , Gareth V. Williams , Sonia Keys , Ian Boardman

The nature and physical properties of asteroids, in particular those orbiting in the near-Earth space, are of scientific interest and practical importance. Exoplanet surveys can be excellent resources to detect asteroids, both already known…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Cortés-Contreras , F. M. Jiménez-Esteban , M. Mahlke , E. Solano , J. Ďurech , S. Barceló Forteza , C. Rodrigo , A. Velasco , B. Carry

The population of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) shows a large variety of objects in terms of physical and dynamical properties. They are subject to planetary encounters and to strong solar wind and radiation effects. Their study is also…

We present preliminary diameters and albedos for 7,959 asteroids detected in the first year of the NEOWISE Reactivation mission. 201 are near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). 7,758 are Main Belt or Mars-crossing asteroids. 17% of these objects have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 C. R. Nugent , A. Mainzer , J. Masiero , J. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , S. Sonnett , R. Stevenson , E. L. Wright

Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), with a powerful sky survey capability in the northern hemisphere, will play an important role in asteroid searching and monitoring. However, WFST is not a telescope dedicated to near-Earth asteroids…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Jun-Qiang Lu , Lu-Lu Fan , Min-Xuan Cai , Shao-Han Wang , Bing-Xue Fu , Xu Kong , Qing-Feng Zhu

Large potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are capable of causing a global catastrophe in the event of a planetary collision. Thus, rapid assessment of such an object's physical characteristics is crucial for determining its potential…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Akash Satpathy , Amy Mainzer , Joseph R. Masiero , Tyler Linder , Roc M. Cutri , Edward L. Wright , Jana Pittichova , Tommy Grav , Emily Kramer

We are a group of over two dozen astronomers, computer scientists, data scientists and digital Big Data research platform experts at 11 universities and research institutes in South Africa and Europe. We study Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) for…

We describe ZStreak, a semi-real-time pipeline specialized in detecting small, fast-moving near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that is currently operating on the data from the newly-commissioned Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. Based on a…

Although many near-Earth objects have been found by ground-based telescopes, some fast-moving ones, especially those near detection limits, have been missed by observatories. We developed a convolutional neural network for detecting faint…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Franklin Wang , Jian Ge , Kevin Willis

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) reactivation mission has completed its third year of surveying the sky in the thermal infrared for near-Earth asteroids and comets. NEOWISE collects simultaneous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Joseph R. Masiero , C. Nugent , A. K. Mainzer , E. L. Wright , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , S. Sonnett

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are a special subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that can come close to the Earth and are large enough to cause significant damage in the event of an impact. Observations and researches of Earth-PHAs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Yufan Fane Zhou , Hailiang Li , Zhiyuan Li , Liyong Zhou

We present diameters and albedos computed for the near-Earth and Main Belt asteroids observed by the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft during the sixth and seventh years of its Reactivation mission.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Joseph R. Masiero , A. K. Mainzer , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , J. Pittichová , E. L. Wright

We analyzed 82,548 carefully curated observations of 4420 asteroids with Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) four-band data to produce estimates of diameters and infrared emissivities. We also used these diameter values in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Nathan Myhrvold , Pavlo Pinchuk , Jean-Luc Margot

We evaluated the planetary radar capabilities at Arecibo, the Goldstone 70-m DSS-14 and 34-m DSS-13 antennas, the 70-m DSS-43 antenna at Canberra, the Green Bank Telescope, and the Parkes Radio Telescope in terms of their relative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Shantanu. P. Naidu , Lance. A. M. Benner , Jean-Luc Margot , Michael. W. Busch , Patrick. A. Taylor

Automated asteroid detection routines set requirements on the number of detections, signal-to-noise ratio, and the linearity of the expected motion in order to balance completeness, reliability, and time delay after data acquisition when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Joseph R. Masiero , E. Redwing , A. K. Mainzer , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , C. R. Nugent , S. Sonnett , E. L. Wright