Sentences with phrase «object observations program»

Pan-STARRS1 is supported by NASA under grant NNX14AM74G issued through the SSO Near Earth Object Observations Program.

NASA, which tracks asteroids passing close to Earth through its Near - Earth Object Observations Program, traced the fireball's path, revealing that it truly was the result of an errant asteroid and not a comet or other space debris.

The Near - Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called «Spaceguard,» discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them and identifies their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.

NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations Program manages and funds the search for, study of and monitoring of asteroids and comets whose orbits periodically bring them close to Earth.

«Finding 10,000 near - Earth objects is a significant milestone,» said Lindley Johnson, program executive for NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington.

When it originated, the NASA - instituted Near - Earth Object Observations Program provided support to search programs run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory (LINEAR); the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NEAT); the University of Arizona (Spacewatch, and later Catalina Sky Survey) and the Lowell Observatory (LONEOS).

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Surveys funded by NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program (NEOs include both asteroids and comets) account for more than 95 percent of discoveries so far.

These observations further demonstrate Geminis ability to probe the most distant objects in the Universe under the most challenging conditions, notes Chris Davis, Program Officer at NSF which is one of five international agencies that own and operate Gemini.

NHATS is funded by NASA's Near - Earth Objects Observations (NEOO) program.

Pan-STARRS conducts a near - Earth object (NEO) survey funded by NASA's NEO Observations Program, a key element of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

The asteroid, referred to as 2014 JO25, was found in May 2014 by scientists at the Catalina Sky Survey, a part of NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program.

This remarkable object was discovered Oct. 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighboobject was discovered Oct. 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighboObject Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighborhood.

Participants will understand the value of using art and objects for increasing cultural competencies and critical thinking; experience pre - and post-museum trip activities that can be used to develop observation, deduction, and language skills, explore themes, and reinforce program learning objectives; and share their own ideas / resources for effective museum - based learning.

Please devote the money saved to expanding NASA's Earth observation, Earth science, and near - Earth object monitoring programs.