NEOWISE OBSERVATIONS OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 743; no. 2; p. jQuery1323900450270='48'
• Main Author: Mainzer, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 20.12.2011
• Subjects: ALBEDO; ASTEROIDS; ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; Availability; COMETS; Estimates; EXTRAPOLATION; Infrared; INFRARED SURVEYS; Near-earth objects; PLANETS; SATELLITES; Size distribution; Wavelengths

With the NEOWISE portion of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) project, we have carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO) population at thermal infrared wavelengths ranging from 3 to 22 Delta *mm, allowing us to refine estimates of their numbers, sizes, and albed...