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In 2005, the United States Congress passed a bill mandating the detection, tracking, cataloguing and characterization of 90\% of the 140 meter and larger near-Earth objects (NEOs) by 2020. At the deadline $\sim$35\% were detected, tracked…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-30 Nathan Golovich

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 rotational properties of small near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) provide crucial insights into their internal structure and collisional history. However, systematic surveys targeting metre- to decametre-sized bodies are rare, thus leaving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Miguel R. Alarcon , Javier Licandro , Miquel Serra-Ricart

Determining the size and orbital distribution of the population of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is the focus of intense research, with the most recent models converging to a population of approximately $1000$ NEAs larger than 1 km and up to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Pasquale Tricarico

The known near-Earth object (NEO) population consists of over 32,000 objects, with a yearly discovery rate of over 3000 NEOs per year. An essential component of the next generation of NEO surveys is an understanding of the population of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Tommy Grav , Amy K. Mainzer , Joseph R. Masiero , Dar W. Dahlen , Tim Spahr , William F. Bottke , Frank J. Masci

Large or even medium sized asteroids impacting the Earth can cause damage on a global scale. Existing and planned concepts for finding near-Earth objects (NEOs) with diameter of 140 m or larger would take ~15-20 years of observation to find…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Michael Shao , Hanying Zhou , Slava G. Turyshev , Chengxing Zhai , Navtej Saini , Russell Trahan

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

Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and dead comets comprise the vast majority of the population of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) detected to date. Less is known of their physical properties than of the much larger population of main-belt asteroids.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 Mark Trueblood , Larry Lebofsky , Robert Crawford

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…

Studies on Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) throw light on discoveries, identification, orbit prediction and civil alert capabilities, including potential asteroid impact hazards. Due to various new observational programs, the discovery rate of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 J. Rukmini , G. Raghavendra , S. A. Ahmed , D. Shanti Priya , Syeda Azeem Unnisa

We propose to use a modest fraction of the re-purposed Kepler mission time and apertures to greatly increase the quantity and quality of our knowledge of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) rotation and shape. NEAs are important for understanding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-11 Martin Elvis , José Luis Galache , Gareth V. Williams

We report a detection of a faint near-Earth asteroid (NEA), which was done using our synthetic tracking technique and the CHIMERA instrument on the Palomar 200-inch telescope. This asteroid, with apparent magnitude of 23, was moving at 5.97…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Chengxing Zhai , Michael Shao , Bijan Nemati , Thomas A. Werne , Hanying Zhou , Slava G. Turyshev , Jagmit Sandhu , Gregg W. Hallinan , Leon K. Harding

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

One-opposition near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are growing in number, and they must be recovered to prevent loss and mismatch risk, and to improve their orbits, as they are likely to be too faint for detection in shallow surveys at future…

With the NEOWISE portion of the \emph{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} (WISE) project, we have carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO) population at thermal infrared wavelengths ranging from 3 to 22 $\mu$m,…

We perform high fidelity simulations of a wide-field telescopic survey searching for Near-Earth Objects (NEO) larger than 140\,m, focusing on the observational and detection model, detection efficiency and accuracy. As a test survey we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-30 Peter Vereš , Steven R. Chesley

We have performed a detailed survey simulation of the LSST performance with regards to near-Earth objects (NEOs) using the project's current baseline cadence. The survey shows that if the project is able to reliably generate linked sets of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Tommy Grav , Amy Mainzer , Tim Spahr

We present an approach that significantly increases the sensitivity for finding and tracking small and fast near Earth asteroids (NEA's). This approach relies on a combined use of a new generation of high-speed cameras which allow short,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Michael Shao , Bijan Nemati , Chengxing Zhai , Slava G. Turyshev , Jagmit Sandhu , Gregg W. Hallinan , Leon K. Harding

We report follow-up observations of 477 program Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) using nine telescopes of the EURONEAR network having apertures between 0.3 and 4.2 m. Adding these NEAs to our previous results we now count 739 program NEAs…

Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) in the 1-100 meter size range are estimated to be $\sim$1,000 times more numerous than the $\sim$15,000 currently-catalogued NEAs, most of which are in the 0.5-10 kilometer size range. Impacts from 10-100 meter…

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