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COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) I. Project Overview and General Characteristics of Detected Comets
Yuna G. Kwon, Dar W. Dahlen, Joseph R. Masiero +8
We present the first results from the COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) project, based on a uniformly processed dataset of 484 comets observed…
The Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission
A. K. Mainzer, Joseph R. Masiero, Paul A. Abell +34
The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a NASA observatory designed to discover and characterize near-Earth asteroids and comets. The mission's primary objective is to find…
Size and Albedo Constraints for (152830) Dinkinesh Using WISE Data
Kiana D. McFadden, Amy K. Mainzer, Joseph R. Masiero +7
Probing small main-belt asteroids provides insight into their formation and evolution through multiple dynamical and collisional processes. These asteroids also overlap in size wit…
NEOWISE Observations Of The Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (99942) Apophis
Akash Satpathy, Amy Mainzer, Joseph R. Masiero +6
Large potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are capable of causing a global catastrophe in the event of a planetary collision. Thus, rapid assessment of such an object's physical…
Asteroid Diameters and Albedos from NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Years Six and Seven
Joseph R. Masiero, A. K. Mainzer, J. M. Bauer +5
We present diameters and albedos computed for the near-Earth and Main Belt asteroids observed by the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft duri…
Physical Properties of 299 NEOs Manually Recovered in Over Five Years of NEOWISE Survey Data
Joseph R. Masiero, Patrice Smith, Lean D. Teodoro +4
Thermal infrared measurements of near-Earth objects provide critical data for constraining their physical properties such as size. The NEOWISE mission has been conducting an all-sk…
Asteroid Diameters and Albedos from NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Years Four and Five
Joseph R. Masiero, A. K. Mainzer, J. M. Bauer +6
The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has been conducting a two-band thermal infrared survey to detect and characterize asteroids and comet…
Response to "An empirical examination of WISE/NEOWISE asteroid analysis and results"
Edward Wright, Amy Mainzer, Joseph Masiero +3
We show that a number of claims made in Myhrvold (2018) (hereafter M2018b) regarding the WISE data and thermal modeling of asteroids are incorrect. That paper provides thermal fit…
Small and Nearby NEOs Observed by NEOWISE During the First Three Years of Survey: Physical Properties
Joseph R. Masiero, E. Redwing, A. K. Mainzer +7
Automated asteroid detection routines set requirements on the number of detections, signal-to-noise ratio, and the linearity of the expected motion in order to balance completeness…
NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year Three: Asteroid Diameters and Albedos
Joseph R. Masiero, C. Nugent, A. K. Mainzer +6
The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) reactivation mission has completed its third year of surveying the sky in the thermal infrared for near-Earth as…
NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year Two: Asteroid Diameters and Albedos
C. R. Nugent, A. Mainzer, J. Bauer +6
The Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission continues to detect, track, and characterize minor planets. We present diameters and albedos calculated…
The NEOWISE-Discovered Comet Population and the CO+CO2 production rates
James M. Bauer, Rachel Stevenson, Emily Kramer +19
The 163 comets observed during the WISE/NEOWISE prime mission represent the largest infrared survey to date of comets, providing constraints on dust, nucleus sizes, and CO+CO2 prod…
NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year One: Preliminary Asteroid Diameters and Albedos
C. R. Nugent, A. Mainzer, J. Masiero +7
We present preliminary diameters and albedos for 7,959 asteroids detected in the first year of the NEOWISE Reactivation mission. 201 are near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). 7,758 are Main…
NEOWISE: Observations of the Irregular Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn
Tommy Grav, James M. Bauer, Amy K. Mainzer +5
We present thermal model fits for 11 Jovian and 3 Saturnian irregular satellites based on measurements from the WISE/NEOWISE dataset. Our fits confirm spacecraft-measured diameters…
Survey Simulations of a New Near-Earth Asteroid Detection System
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Bauer +10
We have carried out simulations to predict the performance of a new space-based telescopic survey operating at thermal infrared wavelengths that seeks to discover and characterize…
NEOWISE observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) as it approaches Mars
R. Stevenson, J. M. Bauer, R. M. Cutri +2
The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission observed comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) three times at 3.4 μm and 4.6 μm as the comet approached Mars i…
Initial Performance of the NEOWISE Reactivation Mission
A. Mainzer, J. Bauer, R. M. Cutri +32
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has been brought out of hibernation and has resumed surveying the sky at 3.4 and 4.6 um. The scientific objectives of t…
The Population of Tiny Near-Earth Objects Observed by NEOWISE
A. Mainzer, J. Bauer, T. Grav +8
Only a very small fraction of the asteroid population at size scales comparable to the object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia has been discovered to date, and physical prope…
Centaurs and Scattered Disk Objects in the Thermal Infrared: Analysis of WISE/NEOWISE Observations
James M. Bauer, Tommy Grav, Erin Blauvelt +22
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observed 52 Centaurs and Scattered Disk Objects in the thermal infrared, including the 15 discoveries that were new. We present analy…
Physical Parameters of Asteroids Estimated from the WISE 3 Band Data and NEOWISE Post-Cryogenic Survey
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Masiero +7
Enhancements to the science data processing pipeline of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) mission, collectively known as NEOWISE, resulted in the detection of 158,000 m…
Preliminary Analysis of WISE/NEOWISE 3-Band Cryogenic and Post-Cryogenic Observations of Main Belt Asteroids
Joseph R. Masiero, A. K. Mainzer, T. Grav +4
We present preliminary diameters and albedos for 13511 MBAs that were observed during the 3-Band Cryo phase of the WISE survey (after the outer cryogen tank was exhausted) and as p…
WISE/NEOWISE Preliminary Analysis and Highlights of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Near Nucleus Environs
James M. Bauer, Emily Kramer, A. K. Mainzer +15
On January 18-19 and June 28-29 of 2010, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft imaged the Rosetta mission target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. We present a…
Characterizing Subpopulations within the Near Earth Objects with NEOWISE: Preliminary Results
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Masiero +10
We present the preliminary results of an analysis of the sub-populations within the near-Earth asteroids, including the Atens, Apollos, Amors, and those that are considered potenti…
WISE/NEOWISE observations of Active Bodies in the Main Belt
James M. Bauer, A. K. Mainzer, Tommy Grav +22
We report results based on mid-infrared photometry of 5 active main belt objects (AMBOs) detected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. Four of these bodies…