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PROGRAM_ID 2023B030
PROGRAM_TITLE IRTF NEO Rapid Response: Close Encounters of the Asteroid Kind
PROGRAM_INV1 Nicholas Moskovitz
PROGRAM_INV2 Teddy Kareta
PROGRAM_INV3 Annika Gustafsson
PROGRAM_INV4 Peter Veres
PROGRAM_INV5 Davide Farnocchia
PROGRAM_SCICAT near-Earth objects
PROGRAM_ABSTRACT_BEG
Surveys for near-Earth objects are increasingly yielding predictions up to a few days in advance of
extremely close encounters [< 0.001 AU; 0.4 lunar distances] and Earth-impacts [e.g. asteroids 2008 TC3,
2014 AA, 2018 LA, 2019 MO]. This proposal presents a Rapid Response plan to enable SpeX+MORIS observations for such events. Rationale for three types of events are presented: [I] encounter inside of 0.001 AU, [II]
asteroid discovered on an impacting trajectory, [III] discovery of a very low delta-v object. Roughly 1 ToO
per year is expected.
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