The Planetary Science Journal (Jan 2023)
The Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission
- A. K. Mainzer,
- J. R. Masiero,
- Paul A. Abell,
- J. M. Bauer,
- William Bottke,
- Bonnie J. Buratti,
- Sean J. Carey,
- D. Cotto-Figueroa,
- R. M. Cutri,
- D. Dahlen,
- Peter R. M. Eisenhardt,
- Y. R. Fernandez,
- Roberto Furfaro,
- Tommy Grav,
- T. L. Hoffman,
- Michael S. Kelley,
- Yoonyoung Kim,
- J. Davy Kirkpatrick,
- Christopher R. Lawler,
- Eva Lilly,
- X. Liu,
- Federico Marocco,
- K. A. Marsh,
- Frank J. Masci,
- Craig W. McMurtry,
- Milad Pourrahmani,
- Lennon Reinhart,
- Michael E. Ressler,
- Akash Satpathy,
- C. A. Schambeau,
- S. Sonnett,
- Timothy B. Spahr,
- Jason A. Surace,
- Mar Vaquero,
- E. L. Wright,
- Gregory R. Zengilowski,
- NEO Surveyor Mission Team
Affiliations
- A. K. Mainzer
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- University of Arizona , 1629 E University Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85721-0092, USA
- J. R. Masiero
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Paul A. Abell
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- NASA Johnson Space Center , 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX 77058, USA
- J. M. Bauer
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- Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Maryland , College Park, MD, USA
- William Bottke
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- Southwest Research Institute , Boulder, CO, USA
- Bonnie J. Buratti
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, USA
- Sean J. Carey
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- D. Cotto-Figueroa
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- Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao , Call Box 860, Humacao, PR 00792, USA
- R. M. Cutri
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- D. Dahlen
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Peter R. M. Eisenhardt
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, USA
- Y. R. Fernandez
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- University of Central Florida , Orlando, FL, USA
- Roberto Furfaro
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- University of Arizona , 1629 E University Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85721-0092, USA
- Tommy Grav
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- University of Arizona , 1629 E University Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85721-0092, USA
- T. L. Hoffman
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, USA
- Michael S. Kelley
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- Planetary Defense Coordination Office, NASA Headquarters , 300 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20546, USA
- Yoonyoung Kim
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- University of California, Los Angeles , Los Angeles, CA, USA
- J. Davy Kirkpatrick
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Christopher R. Lawler
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, USA
- Eva Lilly
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- Planetary Science Institute , Tucson AZ, USA
- X. Liu
- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Federico Marocco
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- K. A. Marsh
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Frank J. Masci
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Craig W. McMurtry
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- Physics and Astronomy Dept., University of Rochester , NY 14627-0171 USA
- Milad Pourrahmani
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Lennon Reinhart
- Space Dynamics Laboratory, University of Utah , Logan, UT, USA
- Michael E. Ressler
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, USA
- Akash Satpathy
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- University of Arizona , 1629 E University Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85721-0092, USA
- C. A. Schambeau
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- Florida Space Institute, University of Central Florida , Orlando, FL, USA; Department of Physics, University of Central Florida , Orlando, FL, USA
- S. Sonnett
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- Planetary Science Institute , Tucson AZ, USA
- Timothy B. Spahr
- NEO Sciences LLC , Marlborough, MA, USA
- Jason A. Surace
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- California Institute of Technology , IPAC, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Mar Vaquero
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, USA
- E. L. Wright
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- University of California, Los Angeles , Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Gregory R. Zengilowski
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- University of Arizona , 1629 E University Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85721-0092, USA
- NEO Surveyor Mission Team
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad0468
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4,
no. 12
p. 224
Abstract
The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a NASA Observatory designed to discover and characterize asteroids and comets. The mission’s primary objective is to find the majority of objects large enough to cause severe regional impact damage (>140 m in effective spherical diameter) within its 5 yr baseline survey. Operating at the Sun–Earth L1 Lagrange point, the mission will survey to within 45° of the Sun in an effort to find objects in the most Earth-like orbits. The survey cadence is optimized to provide observational arcs long enough to distinguish near-Earth objects from more distant small bodies that cannot pose an impact hazard reliably. Over the course of its survey, NEO Surveyor will discover ∼200,000–300,000 new NEOs down to sizes as small as ∼10 m and thousands of comets, significantly improving our understanding of the probability of an Earth impact over the next century.
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