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class="infobox-data note">December 1995<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1995-12</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founded at</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Haleakala_Observatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Haleakala Observatory">Haleakalā Observatory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maui,_Hawaii" class="mw-redirect" title="Maui, Hawaii">Maui, Hawaii</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Dissolved</th><td class="infobox-data">April 2007<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">2007-04</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Space observation program</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data">Disbanded</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data">To search for and map out near-earth asteroids</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Principal Investigator</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Raymond Bambery</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Co-Investigator and Project Manager</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Steven H. Pravdo</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Co-Investigators</div></th><td class="infobox-data">David L. Rabinowitz, Ken Lawrence and Michael Hicks</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main organ</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">National Aeronautics and Space Administration</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Parent organization</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory" title="Jet Propulsion Laboratory">Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://neat.jpl.nasa.gov/">neat<wbr />.jpl<wbr />.nasa<wbr />.gov</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking</b> (<b>NEAT</b>) was a program run by <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory" title="Jet Propulsion Laboratory">Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_survey" title="Astronomical survey">surveying the sky</a> for <a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">near-Earth objects</a>. NEAT was conducted from December 1995 until April 2007, at <a href="/wiki/Ground-based_Electro-Optical_Deep_Space_Surveillance" class="mw-redirect" title="Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance">GEODSS</a> on Hawaii (Haleakala-NEAT; <a href="/wiki/IAU_code#566" class="mw-redirect" title="IAU code">566</a>), as well as at <a href="/wiki/Palomar_Observatory" title="Palomar Observatory">Palomar Observatory</a> in California (Palomar-NEAT; <a href="/wiki/IAU_code#644" class="mw-redirect" title="IAU code">644</a>). With the <a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planet_discoverers#Discovering_dedicated_institutions" title="List of minor planet discoverers">discovery</a> of more than 40 thousand <a href="/wiki/Minor_planet" title="Minor planet">minor planets</a>, NEAT has been one of the most successful programs in this field, comparable to the <a href="/wiki/Catalina_Sky_Survey" title="Catalina Sky Survey">Catalina Sky Survey</a>, <a href="/wiki/LONEOS" class="mw-redirect" title="LONEOS">LONEOS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mount_Lemmon_Survey" title="Mount Lemmon Survey">Mount Lemmon Survey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NEAT_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NEAT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bauer-2007_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bauer-2007-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MPC-Discoverers_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-Discoverers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>NEAT was the successor to the <a href="/wiki/Palomar_Planet-Crossing_Asteroid_Survey" title="Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey">Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey</a> (PCAS). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Near-Earth_Asteroid_Tracking&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NEA_by_survey.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/NEA_by_survey.png/265px-NEA_by_survey.png" decoding="async" width="265" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/NEA_by_survey.png/398px-NEA_by_survey.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/NEA_by_survey.png/530px-NEA_by_survey.png 2x" data-file-width="870" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Number of <a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">NEOs</a> detected by various projects: <table style="width: 100%; margin-bottom: 8px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="45%"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #0000B3;background-color:#0000FF; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/LINEAR" class="mw-redirect" title="LINEAR">LINEAR</a></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #B37400;background-color:#FFA500; color:black;"> </span> <b>NEAT</b></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #800000;background-color:#FF0000; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Spacewatch" title="Spacewatch">Spacewatch</a></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #B3B300;background-color:#FFFF00; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/LONEOS" class="mw-redirect" title="LONEOS">LONEOS</a></span> </td> <td valign="top"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #003D00;background-color:#008B00; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Catalina_Sky_Survey" title="Catalina Sky Survey">CSS</a></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #390052;background-color:#FF00FF; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Pan-STARRS" title="Pan-STARRS">Pan-STARRS</a></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #333;background-color:#00CCCC; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/NEOWISE" class="mw-redirect" title="NEOWISE">NEOWISE</a></span><br /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #333;background-color:#993300; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_near-Earth_object_observation_projects" title="List of near-Earth object observation projects">All others</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </figcaption></figure> <p>The original principal investigator was <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_F._Helin" title="Eleanor F. Helin">Eleanor F. Helin</a>, with co-investigators Steven H. Pravdo and <a href="/wiki/David_L._Rabinowitz" title="David L. Rabinowitz">David L. Rabinowitz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NEAT_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NEAT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>NEAT had a cooperative agreement with the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Air Force">U.S. Air Force</a> to use a <a href="/wiki/GEODSS" class="mw-redirect" title="GEODSS">GEODSS</a> telescope located on <a href="/wiki/Haleakala" class="mw-redirect" title="Haleakala">Haleakala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maui" title="Maui">Maui</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>. GEODSS stands for <a href="/wiki/Ground-based_Electro-Optical_Deep_Space_Surveillance" class="mw-redirect" title="Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance">Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance</a> and these wide field Air Force telescopes were designed to optically observe Earth orbital spacecraft. The NEAT team designed a <a href="/wiki/Charge-coupled_device" title="Charge-coupled device">CCD</a> camera and computer system for the GEODSS telescope. The CCD camera format was 4096 × 4096 <a href="/wiki/Pixel" title="Pixel">pixels</a> and the field of view was 1.2° × 1.6°. </p><p>Beginning in April 2001, the <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Oschin_telescope" title="Samuel Oschin telescope">Samuel Oschin telescope</a> (1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in) aperture Schmidt telescope at <a href="/wiki/Palomar_Observatory" title="Palomar Observatory">Palomar Observatory</a>) was also put into service to discover and track near-Earth objects. This telescope was equipped with a camera containing 112 CCDs each 2400 × 600. This was the telescope that produced the images leading to the discovery of <a href="/wiki/50000_Quaoar" class="mw-redirect" title="50000 Quaoar">50000 Quaoar</a> in 2002, and <a href="/wiki/90377_Sedna" class="mw-redirect" title="90377 Sedna">90377 Sedna</a> in 2003 (published 2004) and the <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarf planet</a> <a href="/wiki/136199_Eris" class="mw-redirect" title="136199 Eris">Eris</a>. </p><p>In addition to discovering thousands of <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroids</a>, NEAT was also credited with the co-discovery (recovery) of periodic <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comet</a> <a href="/wiki/54P/de_Vico-Swift-NEAT" class="mw-redirect" title="54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT">54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT</a> and of the high proper motion <a href="/wiki/Teegarden%27s_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Teegarden's star">Teegarden's star</a>. The <a href="/wiki/C/2001_Q4_(NEAT)" title="C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)">C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)</a> comet was discovered on August 24, 2001 by NEAT.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An asteroid was named in its honour, <a href="/wiki/64070_NEAT" class="mw-redirect" title="64070 NEAT">64070 NEAT</a>, in early 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discoveries">Discoveries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Near-Earth_Asteroid_Tracking&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Discoveries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable floatright" style="font-size: 0.9em; width: 270px;"> <caption><a href="/wiki/Minor_planet" title="Minor planet">Minor planets</a> discovered: 40,975 <sup id="cite_ref-MPC-Discoverers_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-Discoverers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <td><i>see <a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planets#Main_index" title="List of minor planets">List of minor planets § Main index</a></i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Discoveries_by_NEAT" title="Category:Discoveries by NEAT">Category:Discoveries by NEAT</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/1996_PW" title="1996 PW">1996 PW</a> was discovered on 1996 August 9 by a NEAT automated search camera on <a href="/wiki/Haleakal%C4%81" title="Haleakalā">Haleakalā</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Oortcloudasteroid_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oortcloudasteroid-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the first object that was not an active comet discovered on an orbit typical of a long-period comets.<sup id="cite_ref-Oortcloudasteroid_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oortcloudasteroid-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This raised the possibility it was an <a href="/wiki/Extinct_comet" title="Extinct comet">extinct comet</a> or an unusual asteroid.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Near-Earth_Asteroid_Tracking&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Near-Earth_asteroids_by_distance_from_Sun" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Near-Earth asteroids by distance from Sun">List of Near-Earth asteroids by distance from Sun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minor_Planet_Center" title="Minor Planet Center">Minor Planet Center</a> (MPC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_Data_System" title="Planetary Data System">Planetary Data System</a> (PDS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spaceguard" title="Spaceguard">Spaceguard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_near-Earth_object_observation_projects" title="List of near-Earth object observation projects">List of near-Earth object observation projects</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Near-Earth_Asteroid_Tracking&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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planet">distant minor planets</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jupiter-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets">Jupiter-crossers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Saturn-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Saturn-crossing minor planets">Saturn-crossers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Uranus-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Uranus-crossing minor planets">Uranus-crossers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Neptune-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Neptune-crossing minor planets">Neptune-crossers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centaur_(small_Solar_System_body)" title="Centaur (small Solar System body)">Centaurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exoasteroid" title="Exoasteroid">Exoasteroids</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid#Classification" title="Asteroid">Classification</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid#Orbital_classification" title="Asteroid">Orbital</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor-planet_groups" title="List of minor-planet groups">Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_family" title="Asteroid family">Family</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Asteroid_groups_and_families" title="Category:Asteroid groups and families">(list)</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_spectral_types" title="Asteroid spectral types">Spectral</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_spectral_types#Tholen_classification" title="Asteroid spectral types">Tholen</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid#C-group_(Tholen)" title="C-type asteroid">C-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B-type_asteroid" title="B-type asteroid">B-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F-type_asteroid" title="F-type asteroid">F-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G-type_asteroid" title="G-type asteroid">G-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid" title="C-type asteroid">C-type</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-type_asteroid" title="X-type asteroid">X-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M-type_asteroid" title="M-type asteroid">M-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E-type_asteroid" title="E-type asteroid">E-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P-type_asteroid" title="P-type asteroid">P-type</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>small classes</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-type_asteroid" title="A-type asteroid">A-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D-type_asteroid" title="D-type asteroid">D-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J-type_asteroid" title="J-type asteroid">J-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T-type_asteroid" title="T-type asteroid">T-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-type_asteroid" title="Q-type asteroid">Q-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R-type_asteroid" title="R-type asteroid">R-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V-type_asteroid" title="V-type asteroid">V-type</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_spectral_types#SMASS_classification" title="Asteroid spectral types">SMASS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid#C-group_(SMASS)" title="C-type asteroid">C-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B-type_asteroid" title="B-type asteroid">B-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-type_asteroid" title="C-type asteroid">C-type</a></li> <li>Cg</li> <li>Ch</li> <li>Cgh</li> <li>Cb</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-type_asteroid" title="A-type asteroid">A-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-type_asteroid" title="Q-type asteroid">Q-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R-type_asteroid" title="R-type asteroid">R-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K-type_asteroid" title="K-type asteroid">K-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L-type_asteroid" title="L-type asteroid">L-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-type</a></li> <li>Sa</li> <li>Sq</li> <li>Sr</li> <li>Sk</li> <li>Sl</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Lost_minor_planet" title="Lost minor planet">Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asteroid-discovering_observatories" title="List of asteroid-discovering observatories">Discovering observatories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_missions_to_minor_planets" title="List of missions to minor planets">Space missions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_Day" title="Asteroid Day">Asteroid Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroids_in_fiction" title="Asteroids in fiction">Asteroids in fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asteroids_in_astrology" class="mw-redirect" title="List of asteroids in astrology">Asteroids in astrology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occultation#Occultations_by_smaller_bodies" title="Occultation">occultation</a></li></ul></li></ul> 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tractor">Gravity tractor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion-beam_shepherd" title="Ion-beam shepherd">Ion-beam shepherd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approaches_to_Earth" title="List of asteroid close approaches to Earth">Asteroid close approaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Earth-crossing_minor_planets" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Earth-crossing minor planets">Earth-crossing minor planets</a></li> <li>Damage scales <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palermo_Technical_Impact_Hazard_Scale" title="Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale">Palermo scale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torino_scale" title="Torino scale">Torino scale</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Space probes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" title="Dawn 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Scout</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Horizons" title="New Horizons">New Horizons</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OSIRIS-REx" title="OSIRIS-REx">OSIRIS-REx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PROCYON" title="PROCYON">PROCYON</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Rosetta (spacecraft)">Rosetta</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)" title="Philae (spacecraft)">Philae</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)" title="Stardust (spacecraft)">Stardust</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">NEO</a> tracking</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_Terrestrial-impact_Last_Alert_System" title="Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System">ATLAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catalina_Sky_Survey" title="Catalina Sky Survey">Catalina Sky Survey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Near-Earth_Asteroid_Research" title="Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research">LINEAR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowell_Observatory_Near-Earth-Object_Search" title="Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search">LONEOS</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">NEAT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NEODyS" title="NEODyS">NEODyS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NEO_Surveyor" title="NEO Surveyor">NEO Surveyor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near_Earth_Object_Surveillance_Satellite" title="Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite">NEOSSat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ESA_Optical_Ground_Station" title="ESA Optical Ground Station">OGS Telescope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orbit@home" title="Orbit@home">Orbit@home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan-STARRS" title="Pan-STARRS">Pan-STARRS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beijing_Schmidt_CCD_Asteroid_Program" title="Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program">SCAP</a></li> <li><a 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infrared sounder">Atmospheric infrared sounder</a> (AIRS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Space_Atomic_Clock" title="Deep Space Atomic Clock">Deep Space Atomic Clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GRACE-FO" class="mw-redirect" title="GRACE-FO">GRACE-FO</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/InSight" title="InSight">InSight</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)"><i>Juno</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._M._Keck_Observatory" title="W. M. Keck Observatory">Keck observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Large_Binocular_Telescope" title="Large Binocular Telescope">Large Binocular Telescope</a> (LBT)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey" title="2001 Mars Odyssey">Mars Odyssey</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_2020" title="Mars 2020">Mars 2020</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)" title="Perseverance (rover)"><i>Perseverance</i> rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)" title="Ingenuity (helicopter)"><i>Ingenuity</i> helicopter</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" title="Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter</a></i> (MRO)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory" title="Mars Science Laboratory">Mars Science Laboratory</a> (MSL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microwave_limb_sounder" title="Microwave limb sounder">Microwave limb sounder</a> (MLS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multi-angle_imaging_spectroradiometer" title="Multi-angle imaging spectroradiometer">Multi-angle imaging spectroradiometer</a> (MISR)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soil_Moisture_Active_Passive" title="Soil Moisture Active Passive">Soil Moisture Active Passive</a> (SMAP)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tropospheric_Emission_Spectrometer" title="Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer">Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer</a> (TES)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surface_Water_and_Ocean_Topography" title="Surface Water and Ocean Topography">SWOT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voyager_program" title="Voyager program">Voyager program</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_1" title="Voyager 1">Voyager 1</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_2" title="Voyager 2">Voyager 2</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Past missions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens"><i>Cassini-Huygens</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" title="Dawn (spacecraft)"><i>Dawn</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)" title="Deep Impact (spacecraft)"><i>Deep Impact</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deep_Space_1" title="Deep Space 1">Deep Space 1</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deep_Space_2" title="Deep Space 2">Deep Space 2</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorers_Program" title="Explorers Program">Explorers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GALEX" title="GALEX">GALEX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galileo_project" title="Galileo project"><i>Galileo</i></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Galileo (spacecraft)">spacecraft</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft)" title="Genesis (spacecraft)"><i>Genesis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravity_Recovery_and_Climate_Experiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment">GRACE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herschel_Space_Observatory" title="Herschel Space Observatory">Herschel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IRAS" title="IRAS">IRAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason-1" title="Jason-1">Jason-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kepler_space_telescope" title="Kepler space telescope">Kepler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft)" title="Magellan (spacecraft)"><i>Magellan</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariner_program" title="Mariner program">Mariner</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter" title="Mars Climate Orbiter">Mars Climate Orbiter</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Cube_One" title="Mars Cube One">Mars Cube One</a> (MarCO)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_Observer" title="Mars Observer">Mars Observer</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder" title="Mars Pathfinder">Mars Pathfinder</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander" title="Mars Polar Lander">Mars Polar Lander</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_Global_Surveyor" title="Mars Global Surveyor">Mars Global Surveyor</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover" title="Mars Exploration Rover">Mars Exploration Rovers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spirit_(rover)" title="Spirit (rover)"><i>Spirit</i> rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opportunity_(rover)" title="Opportunity (rover)"><i>Opportunity</i> rover</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_Asteroid_Scout" title="Near-Earth Asteroid Scout">Near-Earth Asteroid Scout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scatterometer" title="Scatterometer">NSCAT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft)" title="Phoenix (spacecraft)"><i>Phoenix</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_program" title="Pioneer program">Pioneer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QuikSCAT" title="QuikSCAT">QuikSCAT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranger_program" title="Ranger program">Ranger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Rosetta (spacecraft)"><i>Rosetta</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seasat" title="Seasat">Seasat</a></li> 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