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ATLAS - NASA Funding
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The current grant ends at the end of 2017, but the Project expects to obtain additional operations funding through 2020. John Tonry descibes his successful efforts to persuade NASA to fund ATLAS. Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.
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ATLAS - Glossary
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Astronomical Unit: The mean distance between the Earth and Sun, equal to about 150 million kilometers (or about 93 million miles). An asteroid is an icy dirtball that orbits the Sun, typically on a almost-circular orbit. Asteroids were once thought to be solid chunks of rock but in the past few decades scientists have realized that most of them are probably rubble piles of rock held together by their weak gravitational attraction and mixed with ice. Asteroids are generally more rocky than icy. Charge Cou...
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ATLAS - Asteroids
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Danger froin Asteroid impact. Cartoon by Dick Adair from The Honolulu Advertiser, October 10, 2002. Used with kind permission. Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.
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ATLAS - How Atlas works
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Atlas: How it works. The detailed specification for the ATLAS telescope may be found here. The schedule for the completion of the project may be found here. Images of the sky taken xx minutes apart. Show an asteroid moving against the. PHO) which might be. All these calculations are made within minutes of the data being taken. Go to the Impact Response. Page to find out what happens if we detect an asteroid on a path that may intersect with the Earth. Range of warning times for different sized. ATLAS sci...
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ATLAS - Impact Alerts
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Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.
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ATLAS - Status
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For the latest news about ATLAS see our regular Updates. For news articles that mention ATLAS see our Press Room. For information about how ATLAS is being funded. Information about the People. Who are working on the ATLAS project. Here's how to Contact us. Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.
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ATLAS - Technical Specifications
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Technical Specs - Pathfinder and Atlas. The table below highlights some of the current expectations for the Pathfinder telescope and for the Atlas instrument itself. Pathfinder is a tech demonstrator intended to help guide the ATLAS software effort past Spiral 1 to Spiral 2. Before using any of these specifications to check for updates. Initially 2, goal 6 or more. Mauna Loa and Haleakala in Hawaii. Additional sites desired in Australia, Chile, Canaries, South Africa. 100 miles (160 km). 002 mag @ r 15.
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ATLAS - The ATLAS Project
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Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. Is an asteroid impact early warning system being developed by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA. When ATLAS. Is completed in 2017, it will consist of two telescopes, 100 miles apart, which automatically scan the whole sky several times every night looking for moving objects. ATLAS. Will provide one day's warning for a 30-kiloton town killer, a week for a 5-megaton city killer, and three weeks for a 100-megaton county killer. Read about the design.
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ATLAS - Historical Impacts
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There are, however, recognized impacts and we list some of them below ranging from events within the past few years, to large explosions that occurred in the past century, to huge explosions while humans were present on Earth, to global catastrophes eons ago. 50 thousand years ago. 35 million years ago. 65 million years ago. 2013 - 17-20 m (55-65 feet) diameter impactor. The meteor streaking through the sky above. Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15, 2013. By Pichon et al. Reported the explosion produced ...
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ATLAS - Project schedule
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The schedule for the completion of the ATLAS project is as follows:. Get all large contracts in place (telescope, camera, mount,. Enclosure, site agreements). Get a miniature Pathfinder. Telescope going on Mauna Loa to provide a real data stream. Do most of camera construction, get enclosures going. Develop. Complete cameras (less CCDs), work on enclosures and piers. Complete enclosures and piers. Develop software. Take delivery on Camera #1. Develop software. In both enclosures. Develop software.
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