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Costs vs Risk Reduction Table From NASA's NEO Office
Mark Eby — (archived)

Finally found the Cost vs Risk Remaining After 10 Years and the Cost vs Time To Reduce Risk by 90% tables prepared by the people actually working in NEO detection. The full report is available at Study to Determine the Feasibility of Extending the Search for Near-Earth Objects to Smaller Limiting Diameters A search for Moon in this document leads only to comments on how much it interferes with NEO searches on Earth.

Please note the risk can be reduced 90% below the target for the current survey within between 7 an 20 years for costs ranging from 240 to 400 million dollars and All of these systems have risk reduction benefits which greatly exceed the costs of system acquisition and operation as noted in the summary. It should also be noted that these search systems would naturally provide an impact warning of 60-90% for objects as small as those capable of producing significant air blasts.

Regards,
Mark

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