JWST as a Planetary Defense Asset: The Case of 2024 YR4
JWST as a Planetary Defense Asset: The Case of 2024 YR4
Andrew Rivkin1, Eric MacLennan2, Bryan Holler3, Thomas Müller4, Julien de Wit5, Artem Burdanov5, Maxime Devogele6, Petr Pravec7, Marco Micheli6, Cristina Thomas8, Davide Farnocchia9, Allison K Glantzberg10, Luca Conversi11, Jessie Dotson12, Lorien Wheeler13, Stefanie N Milam14 and Heidi B Hammel15, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (2)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (3)Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, United States, (4)Max Planck Insitute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (6)ESA NEOCC, Frascati, Italy, (7)Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ondrejov, Czech Republic, (8)Northern Arizona University, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Flagstaff, United States, (9)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (10)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (11)NEOCC, Frascati, Italy, (12)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (13)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (15)Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Washington D.C., United States