Sec. 321. Near-Earth Object Survey
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Congress finds the following: The George E. Brown, Jr. Near-Earth Object Survey Act ( Public Law 109–155 ) established the Near-Earth Object Survey program to detect, track, and catalogue the physical characteristics of near-Earth objects equal to or greater than 140 meters in diameter in order to assess the threat of such objects to Earth. The goal of the Survey program is to achieve 90 percent completion of the near-Earth project catalogue (based on statistically predicted populations of near-Earth objects) not later than 15 years after the date of the enactment of the George E.
Brown, Jr. Near-Earth Object Survey Act. NASA has been successful finding more than 90 percent of the near-Earth asteroids larger than one kilometer but has only found about 30 percent of the near-Earth objects larger than 140 meters. The vast majority of near-Earth object discoveries have been made by NASA-supported ground-based telescopic surveys. It is the sense of Congress that— in order to meet the statutory requirements of the George E Brown, Jr. Near-Earth Object Survey Act ( Public Law 109–155 ), a space-based telescope mission should be fully funded and supported by NASA and carried out by the Planetary Defense Coordination Office; and the space-based telescope Near-Earth Object Camera mission, or a similar infrared telescope concept optimized for near-Earth object search and characterization, could discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids that are near the Earth.
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Near-Earth Object Survey
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