The WISE view of the Solar System

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) recently completed a thermal infrared survey of the entire sky, with sensitivity nearly two orders of magnitude better than its predecessor IRAS. Simultaneously, the NEOWISE augmentation allowed for the characterization and discovery of over 150,000 Solar system objects. Dr. Masiero will present an overview of both WISE and NEOWISE, and highlight some of the interesting recent results in Solar system science to come out of this data set, including new information on the classification of asteroids.

Speaker: Joseph Masiero, Jet Propulsion Laboratory