Not exact matches
NASA's Spaceguard survey program, established in 1998, aims to locate and follow at least 90 percent of the estimated 1,100 asteroids that come within about 30 million miles of Earth's
orbit around the
sun and that are larger than two - thirds of a mile
wide.
The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of
wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in
orbit around the brightest stars in the
sun's neighborhood.
The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of
wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in
orbit around the brightest stars in the
sun's neighborhood.