Speaker
Joseph Masiero
(Caltech/IPAC)
Description
NEO Surveyor will produce observations of hundreds of thousands of near-Earth objects during its 5-year primary mission. Being taken at mid-infrared wavelengths, the astrometric uncertainties will be generally larger than those from ground-based telescopes, while the planned survey cadence means that each tracklet will cover a longer timespan. The access to low elongations enabled by observing from a space-based platform will also change the segments of the orbits that are covered by the observations. We discuss the predicted astrometric performance of NEO Surveyor observations of NEOs, as well as initial metrics for the tracklets that expected to be reported.
Author
Joseph Masiero
(Caltech/IPAC)
