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8 Optimal Approaches
Pages 97-100

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From page 97...
... • $0-million level. The committee concluded that if only $10 million were appropriated annually, an approximately optimal allocation would be as follows: $4 million for continuing ground-based optical surveys and for making follow-up observations on long-known and newly discovered NEOs, including determining their orbits and archiving these along with the observations; the archive would continue to be publicly accessible; $2.5 million to support radar observations of NEOs at the Arecibo Observatory; $1.5 million to support radar observations at the Goldstone Observatory; and 
From page 98...
... At a $50-million annual appropriations level, in addition to the tasks listed above, the committee notes that the remaining $40 million could be used for the following: Support of a ground-based facility, as discussed in Chapter 3, to enable the completion of the congres sionally mandated survey to detect 90 percent of near-Earth objects of 140 meters in diameter or greater by the delayed date of 2030. The $50-million funding level would likely not be sufficient for the United States alone to conduct space tele scope missions that might be able to carry through a more complete survey faster.
From page 99...
... A $250-million annual level of funding, if continued for somewhat under a decade, would be sufficient to accomplish the survey and research objec tives, plus provide survey redundancy and support for a space mission to test in situ characterization and mitigation.


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