Combined Emerging Capabilities for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs)

Abstract

Assess the joint capabilities of emerging telescopes for near-Earth objects (NEOs) survey and characterization, and what they will add to the current capabilities or replace. NASA telescopes in prime mission, in development, or under study, and requested for this assessment, include: - The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) - The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) - The Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam). Also requested for this assessment is the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), an 8.4-meter ground-based telescope in development by the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy (DOE), with the capability to discover and catalogue NEOs.

White Paper for NASA on astrophysics assets

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• Compositional distributions and evolutionary processes for the near-Earth object population: Results from the MIT-Hawaii Near-Earth Object Spectroscopic Survey (MITHNEOS
• Modeling the Performance of the LSST in Surveying the Near-Earth Object Population
• Observing Near-Earth Objects with the James Webb Space Telescope
• Response to "An empirical examination of WISE/NEOWISE asteroid analysis and results"

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• Solar System objects observed with TESS -- First data release: bright main-belt and Trojan asteroids from the Southern Survey