Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking

Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
Abbreviation	NEAT
Predecessor	Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
Successor	Near Earth Object Program
Formation	December 1995
Founded at	Haleakalā Observatory, Maui, Hawaii
Dissolved	April 2007
Type	Space observation program
Legal status	Disbanded
Purpose	To search for and map out near-earth asteroids
Principal Investigator	Raymond Bambery
Co-Investigator and Project Manager	Steven H. Pravdo
Co-Investigators	David L. Rabinowitz, Ken Lawrence and Michael Hicks
Main organ	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Parent organization	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Website	neat.jpl.nasa.gov

Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, surveying the sky for near-Earth objects. NEAT was conducted from December 1995 until April 2007, at GEODSS on Hawaii (Haleakala-NEAT; 566), as well as at Palomar Observatory in California (Palomar-NEAT; 644). With the discovery of more than 40 thousand minor planets, NEAT has been one of the most successful programs in this field, comparable to the Catalina Sky Survey, LONEOS and Mount Lemmon Survey.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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