Planetary Defense Resources

The following papers, available in pdf format, are posted with permission from the authors.

Planetary Defense: Potential Department of Defense Mitigation Roles Lt Col Peter Garretson, United States Air Force, Major Douglas Kaupa, United States Air Force

Optimal Deflection of Hazardous Near-Earth Objects by Standoff Nuclear Detonation and NEO Mitigation Mission Design Brent William Barbee, Wallace T. Fowler, George W. Davis, David E. Gaylor

Extremely Large Yet Very Low Weight and Low Cost Space Based Telescopes for Detection of 140 Meter Diameter Asteroids at 5.7 AU, and Obtaining 6 Year Warning Times for 1 km Diameter Comets Ivan Bekey

Determining the Physical Properties of Near-Earth Objects D. P. Cruikshank, J. P. Emery, A. K. Mainzer, S. P. Worden, E. Wright, P. Eisenhardt

Distributed-Energy Blasting for NEO Destruction Leslie Gertsch, Jason Baird, and Paul Worsey

Comparison of the Efficiency of Various Asteroid Hazard Mitigation Techniques Gabe Rogers, Noam R. Izenberg

Compositional and Physical Characterizations of NEOs from VNIR Spectroscopy Michael J. Gaffey, Paul A. Abell, Paul S. Hardersen

The Role of Ground-based Radar in Near-Earth Object Tracking, Characterization, and Threat Mitigation Steven J. Ostro, Jon D. Giorgini

Fast and Cost-Effective Characterization of Potential NEO Hazards using REP Technology Louise M. Prockter, Paul H. Ostdiek, Ralph L. McNutt

SHIELD: A Comprehensive Earth Protection System, Updated Noam R. Izenberg, Kevin J. Heffernan

Characterizing and Evaluation NEO Surface and Interior Properties and Binary Configurations Daniel D. Durda, Clark R. Chapman, William J. Merline

WISE Observations of Near Earth Asteroids Edward L. Wright, Amanda Mainzer, Robert McMillan, Russell Walker

Spacecraft at Small NEO D.J. Scheeres

Threat Mitigation: The Asteroid Tugboat Russell Schweickart, Clark Chapman, Dan Durda, Piet Hut

Mitigation: Interfaces Between NASA, Risk Managers, and the Public Clark R. Chapman, Daniel D. Durda, and Russell L. Schweickart

Threat Characterization: Trajectory Dynamics Russell Schweickart, Clark Chapman, Dan Durda, Piet Hut, Bill Bottke, David Nesvorny

Threat Mitigation: The Gravity Tractor Russell Schweickart, Clark Chapman, Dan Durda, Piet Hut