The Sky Is Cheap Entertainment: Preventing The Sky From Falling

 

Detecting asteroids near the sun with NEOMIR

https://earthsky.org/space/asteroids-near-the-sun-early-warning-system-neomir/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=8dc8deb458-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-8dc8deb458-393705197&mc_cid=8dc8deb458&mc_eid=f6de7da880

How Do We Detect Asteroids?

https://www.nasa.gov/content/asteroid-grand-challenge/detect/how-do-we-detect-asteroids

NASA’s NEO Observations Program is tasked with finding, tracking, and characterizing NEOs and identifying those that may pose a hazard to Earth. Ground-based telescopes and NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft are the current means of finding NEOs. In fiscal year 2013, the NEO Observations Program supported 41 ongoing projects, including 5 detection and tracking campaigns, 10 follow-up surveys, 9 characterization efforts, 3 radar projects, 4 data processing and management projects, 6 technology development projects, and 4 studies of techniques for impact mitigation.