Abbreviation | NEAT |
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Predecessor | Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey |
Successor | Near Earth Object Program |
Formation | December 1995 |
Founded at | Haleakalā Observatory, Maui, Hawaii |
Dissolved | April 2007 |
Type | Space observation program |
Legal status | Disbanded |
Purpose | To search for and map out near-earth asteroids |
Principal Investigator | Raymond Bambery |
Co-Investigator and Project Manager | Steven H. Pravdo |
Co-Investigators | David L. Rabinowitz, Ken Lawrence and Michael Hicks |
Main organ | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
Parent organization | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Website | neat |
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They surveyed the sky for near-Earth objects. NEAT was a program from December 1995 until April 2007. It was at GEODSS on Hawaii (Haleakala-NEAT; 566) and at the Palomar Observatory in California (Palomar-NEAT; 644). It discovered more than 40 thousand minor planets. NEAT has been one of the best programs in tracking minor planets.[1][2][3]
NEAT was the successor to the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS).
see List of minor planets § Main index |
LINEAR NEAT Spacewatch LONEOS | CSS Pan-STARRS NEOWISE All others |