Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking

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Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
AbbreviationNEAT
Predecessor
Maui, Hawaii
DissolvedApril 2007 (2007-04)
TypeSpace observation program
Legal statusDisbanded
PurposeTo search for and map out near-earth asteroids
Principal Investigator
Raymond Bambery
Co-Investigator and Project Manager
Steven H. Pravdo
Co-Investigators
David L. Rabinowitz, Ken Lawrence and Michael Hicks
Main organ
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Parent organization
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Websiteneat.jpl.nasa.gov

Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by

LONEOS and Mount Lemmon Survey.[1][2][3]

NEAT was the successor to the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS).

History

NEOWISE
  All others

The original principal investigator was Eleanor F. Helin, with co-investigators Steven H. Pravdo and David L. Rabinowitz.[1]

NEAT had a cooperative agreement with the

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 was 4096 × 4096 pixels
and the field of view was 1.2° × 1.6°.

Beginning in April 2001, the

Eris
.

In addition to discovering thousands of

Teegarden's star. The C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) comet was discovered on August 24, 2001 by NEAT.[4]

An asteroid was named in its honour,

64070 NEAT, in early 2005.[5]

Discoveries

Minor planets discovered: 40,975 [3]
see List of minor planets § Main index
See also: Category:Discoveries by NEAT

1996 PW was discovered on 1996 August 9 by a NEAT automated search camera on Haleakalā, Hawaii.[6] It was the first object that was not an active comet discovered on an orbit typical of a long-period comets.[6] This raised the possibility it was an extinct comet or an unusual asteroid.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)". Near Earth Object Program. NASA/JPL. Archived from the original on 14 January 2004. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  2. Bibcode:2008LPICo1405.8086B
    . Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  4. ^ "C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  5. ^ "64070 NEAT (2001 SS272)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  6. ^ a b Weissman, P. R. & Levison, H. F. (1997). Origin and evolution of the unusual object 1996 PW: Asteroids from the Oort cloud?. The Astrophysical Journal, 488, L133–L136
  7. ^ "New Object Moves like a Comet but Looks like an Asteroid". Pasadena, California: Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 22 August 1996. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

External links

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