Japan Spaceguard Association

Japan Spaceguard Association

Type	specified nonprofit corporation
Industry	astronomy
Founded	October 20, 1996^[1]
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Revenue	non-profit
Website	www.spaceguard.or.jp

The Japan Spaceguard Association (日本スペースガード協会, nihon supēsugādo kyōkai, abbreviated JSGA) is a not-for-profit organization based in Tokyo, Japan. Its aim echoes that of The Spaceguard Foundation and other spaceguard movements: to protect the Earth's environment from a disastrous near-Earth object (NEO) collision by studying and observing the NEOs.^[2] Its formal status under the Japanese law is specified nonprofit corporation (特定非営利活動法人, tokutei hieiri katsudō hōjin).

The association operates the Bisei Spaceguard Center to achieve their goal. It is located near Bisei town, Japan. In addition to the search for NEOs, this facility will be used to track debris in Earth orbit.

References

↑ 発足からNPO法人になるまでについて, JSGA.
↑ Article 3 of the by-laws of JSGA

External links

Planetary defense

Main topics	Asteroid Bolide Earth-grazing fireball Impact event List of meteor air bursts Meteor procession Meteor shower Meteorite Meteoroid Near-Earth object Potentially hazardous object

Defense	Asteroid impact avoidance Asteroid close approaches Earth-crossing minor planets Gravity tractor Ion Beam Shepherd Damage scales Palermo scale Torino scale

Space probes	AIDA Asteroid Redirect Mission Dawn Deep Impact Halley Armada Hayabusa Hayabusa 2 PROCYON NEAR Shoemaker New Horizons OSIRIS-REx Rosetta Philae Stardust

NEO tracking	ATLAS Catalina Sky Survey LINEAR LONEOS NEAT NEOSSat NEOCam NEODyS OGS Telescope Orbit@home Pan-STARRS SCAP Sentinel Space Telescope Sentry Spacewatch WISE

Organizations	B612 Foundation Japan Spaceguard Association Meteoritical Society NEOShield Spaceguard The Spaceguard Foundation Space Situational Awareness Programme Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Potential threats	1950 DA 1994 WR₁₂ 101955 Bennu 2002 MN (410777) 2009 FD 2010 RF₁₂ 99942 Apophis

Films/video	(1916) The End of the World (1951) When Worlds Collide (1962) Gorath (1968) The Green Slime (1968) The Paradise Syndrome (1978) A Fire in the Sky (1979) Meteor (1995) NOVA: Doomsday Asteroid (1997) Asteroid (1998) Deep Impact (1998) Armageddon (1999) Judgment Day (2004) Post Impact (2006) Deadly Skies (2007) Super Comet: After the Impact (2009) Impact (2009) NOVA: Last Extinction (2010) Meteor Storm (2010) HORIZON: Asteroids–The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2011) Melancholia (2013) NOVA: Meteor Strike (2013) NOVA: Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday? (2015) Impact Earth

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