↑(en) Joseph N. Pelton, Space Systems and Sustainability: From Asteroids and Solar Storms to Pandemics and Climate Change, Springer Nature, , 251 p. (ISBN978-3-030-75735-9, lire en ligne), p. 110 :
« NASA’s new infrared telescope, launched in 2020, could also have been dep^loyed to find dansgerous asteroids, but it is instead being used to find distant galaxies and exoplanets. This is a very worthy project, but still, there should always be a clear setting of priorities. Is finding more exoplanets more important than saving Earth from destruction ?
Of course, ground-based observatories are also used to find and track asteroids, with spacial tracking emphasis on dangerous ones that could hit Earth.There are at least 30 independent observatories performing such tracking. They range from Andrushikva Astronomical Observatory in Oblast, Ukraine, to the Zeno Observatory in Edmond, Oklahoma in the United States. NASA, together with the Jet Propulsing Lab, created the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) system in 1995. »
