...emphasises the importance of international cooperation in planetary defence efforts. In the recently released National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan report, international cooperation is one of five strategic goals identified...
... space surveillance and tracking of space debris (objects) that circle Earth; providing space weather reports (see next section); and detecting near Earth objects that could cause damage on Earth. Through the observations made, the space-based...
... affect space-borne infrastructure or endanger human life or health near-Earth objects: detecting natural objects such as asteroids and comets which can potentially impact Earth space surveillance and tracking: tracking active and inactive satellites...
... Rubin Observatory are deliberately widening their fields of view to enable more efficient searches for targets such as near-Earth objects (NEOs) and exoplanets. With the simultaneous increase in satellite numbers, the chances of a satellite entering...
... northern hemisphere during the first week of 2017 and according to Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair...
... the Sun at that distance," said Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL. "The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our solar system, but also that...