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NEAT program

Near Earth Asteroid Tracking

August 17, 2009

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program(NEAT) is comprised of two autonomous observing systems. One is the at Maui Space Surveillance Site(NEAT/MSSS) and the other is located at Palomar Observatory(NEAT/Palomar). Both sites utilize 1.2 m telescopes to search for near Earth asteroids(NEAs) [...]

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Asteroid Collision

June 24, 2009

The chance of an asteroid collision is something that science needs to keep an eye on. Luckily, NASA and the Air Force already do. Every object in the solar system has been struck by at least one asteroid in its lifetime. The Earth has been struck dozens of times with the latest happening less than [...]

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Asteroid Tracking

June 22, 2009

Asteroid tracking is done in two different ways, by telescope and with radar. The Near Earth Asteroid Tracking, NEAT for short, program that NASA runs uses two telescopes and many other programs use delay-Doppler radar to get images and surface features of asteroids. The information gained by these programs may be used for different purposes, [...]

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