ExploreNEOs: The Warm Spitzer Near Earth Object Survey

David E. Trilling,Joseph L. Hora,Michael Mueller,C. A. Thomas,A. W. Harris,A. R. Hagen,M. Mommert,Lance A. M. Benner,Bidushi Bhattacharya,William F. Bottke,S. R. Chesley,M. Delbo,J. P. Emery,Giovanni G. Fazio,John L. Kistler,A. Mainzer,Alessandro Morbidelli,Bryan E. Penprase,H. A. Smith,T. B. Spahr,J. A. Stansberry

ExploreNEOs: The Warm Spitzer Near Earth Object Survey

2012

We have observed some 600 near Earth objects (NEOs) at 3.6 and 4.5 microns with the Warm Spitzer Space Telescope. We derive the albedo and diameter for each NEO to characterize global properties of the NEO population, among other goals.

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Astronomy
Albedo
Near-Earth object
Population
Spitzer Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Geography
Extrapolation

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