Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
- Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT system began observations in December 1995.
The original principal investigator was Eleanor F. Helin, with co-investigators Steven H. Pravdo and David L. Rabinowitz.
NEAT has a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Air Force to use a GEODSS telescope located on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. GEODSS stands for Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance and these wide field Air Force telescopes were designed to optically observe Earth orbital spacecraft. The NEAT team designed a CCD camera and computer system for the GEODSS telescope. The CCD camera format is 4096 × 4096 pixels and the field of view is 1.2° × 1.6°.
Beginning in April 2001, the Samuel Oschin telescope (1.2 metre aperture Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory) was also put into service to discover and track near-Earth objects. This telescope is equipped with a camera containing 112 CCDs each 2400 × 600. This is the telescope that produced the images leading to the discovery of 50000 Quaoar in 2002, and 90377 Sedna in 2003 (published 2004) and the dwarf planet Eris.
In addition to discovering thousands of asteroids, NEAT is also credited with the co-discovery (recovery) of periodic comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT and of the high proper motion Teegarden's star. The C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) comet was discovered on August 24, 2001 by NEAT.
An asteroid was named in its honour, 64070 NEAT, in early 2005.
ee also
*Spaceguard
*Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
External links
* [http://neat.jpl.nasa.gov/ Near Earth Asteroid Tracking]
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking — (NEAT) is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.[1] Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 … Wikipedia
Near Earth Asteroid Tracking — (NEAT) était un programme dirigé par la NASA et le Jet Propulsion Laboratory pour découvrir des objets géocroiseurs. Le système NEAT a commencé ses observations en décembre 1995 pour s achever en avril 2007[1]. Le principal chercheur était… … Wikipédia en Français
Near Earth Asteroid Tracking — El Near Earth Asteroide Tracking (NEAT) es un programa concebido para la búsqueda de asteroides que viajen cercanos a la Tierra y que puedan entrar en ruta de colisión con el planeta azul. Está dirigido por la NASA y por el Jet Propulsion… … Wikipedia Español
Near Earth Asteroid Tracking — Dieser Artikel beschreibt das Himmelsüberwachungsprojekt NEAT. Weitere Bedeutungen von NEAT werden unter NEAT (Begriffsklärung) aufgeführt. NEAT (Near Earth Asteroid Tracking) ist ein Projekt des Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) zur… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking — Количество околоземных объектов, обнаруженных различными проектами NEAT (англ. Near Earth Asteroid Tracking отслеживание околоземных астероидов) проект Лаборатории реактивного движения … Википедия
Near-Earth asteroid — Near Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earth s orbit. All near Earth asteroids spend part of their orbits between 0.983 and 1.3 astronomical units away from the Sun. Some near Earth asteroids orbits intersect Earth s… … Wikipedia
Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research — (englisch für Lincoln Institut zur Erforschung erdnaher Asteroiden), kurz LINEAR, ist ein Projekt des Massachusetts Institute of Technology zur Himmelsüberwachung mit dem Ziel, alle erdnahen Asteroiden vor einer Kollision mit der Erde rechtzeitig … Deutsch Wikipedia
Near-Earth object — Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a potentially hazardous object that has passed within 2.3 lunar distances … Wikipedia
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research — The LI ncoln N ear E arth A steroid R esearch (LINEAR) project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT s Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near Earth asteroids. LINEAR is… … Wikipedia
Near-Earth object — Erdnahe Objekte (engl. Near Earth object; NEO), auch Erdbahnkreuzer, sind Asteroiden, Kometen und große Meteoroiden, welche bei ihrem Umlauf um die Sonne die Erdbahn kreuzen und deshalb eine Kollisionsgefahr bergen. Um dieser Gefahr begegnen zu… … Deutsch Wikipedia
