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Current NEO surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Stephen Larson
Stephen Larson*
Affiliation:
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The state and discovery rate of current NEO surveys reflect incremental improvements in a number of areas, such as detector size and sensitivity, computing capacity, detection software efficiency and availability of larger telescope apertures. The result has been an increase in the NEO discovery rate. There are currently eight telescopes ranging in size from 0.5-1.5 meters carrying out full-or part-time systematic surveying in both hemispheres. The sky is covered 1-2 times per lunation to V1~9, with a band near the ecliptic to V2~0.5. We review the current survey programs and their contributions towards the Spaceguard goal of discovering at least 90% of the NEOs larger than 1 km.

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Surveystelescopesdiscoveries
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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S236: Near Earth Objects, our Celestial Neighbors: Opportunity and Risk , August 2006 , pp. 323 - 328
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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