Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Interim Report

Committee to Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies; Space Studies Board; AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ENGINEERING BOARD; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Research Council

doi:10.17226/12738

Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Interim Report

Committee to Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
, Space Studies Board
, AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ENGINEERING BOARD
, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
, National Research Council

Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
Northrop Grumman
University of California at Los Angeles
Universal Space Network
MMT Observatory at Mt. Hopkins
Planetary Science Institute
Ball Corporation
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Southwest Research Institute
University of New York
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Central Florida
University of Washington
Universities Space Research Association
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California at Berkeley
University of Maryland, College Park
National Optical Astronomy Observatories
Sandia National Laboratories
Los Alamos National Laboratory
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Boeing
University of Arizona
LLC
Harvard University
University of Virginia
Space Studies Board
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board
University of California at San Diego
Lockheed Martin
University of Colorado
Battel Engineering

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Abstract

The United States is currently the only country with an active, government-sponsored effort to detect and track potentially hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs). Congress has mandated that NASA detect and track 90 percent of NEOs that are 1 kilometer in diameter or larger. These objects represent a great potential hazard to life on Earth and could cause global destruction. NASA is close to accomplishing this goal. Congress has more recently mandated that by 2020 NASA should detect and track 90 percent of NEOs that are 140 meters in diameter or larger, a category of objects that is generally recognized to represent a very significant threat to life on Earth if they strike in or near urban areas. Achieving this goal may require the building of one or more additional observatories, possibly including a space-based observatory. Congress directed NASA to ask the National Research Council to review NASA's near-Earth object programs. This interim report addresses some of the issues associated with the survey and detection of NEOs. The final report will contain findings and recommendations for survey and detection, characterization, and mitigation of near-Earth objects based on an integrated assessment of the problem.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Coresource 4
Publisher	National Academies Press
Pages	1-17
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	0309143616, 9780309143615
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.17226/12738
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Committee to Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies, Space Studies Board, AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ENGINEERING BOARD, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, & National Research Council (2009). Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Interim Report. In Coresource 4 (pp. 1-17). National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/12738

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