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Title: NEO Survey: An Efficient Search for Near-Earth Objects by an IR Observatory in a Venus like Orbit
Primary Author: Robert F. Arentz
Secondary Author(s): Harold Reitsema
Institution: Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
Summary: We present a conceptual design based on high-heritage flight systems from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Kepler mission which will find 90% of all 140-meter NEOS in 7 years after launch, and by 2020, if started soon.
Panel Selection: Primitive Bodies: Asteroids, comets, Phobos, Deimos, Pluto/Charon and other Kuiper belt objects, meteorites, and interplanetary dust.
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