Our mission is to develop techniques
and perform observations to discover, characterize, and monitor near Earth
objects (NEOs) which may potentially impact the Earth.
The Near Earth Object Foundation plans
to eventually have a thousand NEO observatories around the world collectively
dubbed the k-SkyWatch Survey, a program to survey the Earth’s sky for near
Earth objects (NEOs), such as asteroids and short and long period comets
whose orbits cross the orbit of the Earth. These NEOs have a potential
of catastrophically colliding with the Earth, resulting in possible severe
devastation and widespread species extinction.
The first of these observatories,
The Sir Arthur C. Clarke NEO Observatory, will
include among it's goals not only observational astronomy, but the advancement
of observational technology and the education of those who in the future
will carry on our mission.