The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE)
reactivation mission has completed its third year of surveying the sky in the
thermal infrared for near-Earth asteroids and comets. NEOWISE collects
simultaneous observations at 3.4 um and 4.6 um of solar system objects passing
through its field of regard. These data allow for the determination of total
thermal emission from bodies in the inner solar system, and thus the sizes of
these objects. In this paper we present thermal model fits of asteroid
diameters for 170 NEOs and 6110 MBAs detected during the third year of the
survey, as well as the associated optical geometric albedos. We compare our
results with previous thermal model results from NEOWISE for overlapping sample
sets, as well as diameters determined through other independent methods, and
find that our diameter measurements for NEOs agree to within 26% (1-sigma) of
previously measured values. Diameters for the MBAs are within 17% (1-sigma).
This brings the total number of unique near-Earth objects characterized by the
NEOWISE survey to 541, surpassing the number observed during the fully
cryogenic mission in 2010.Comment: Accepted for publication in A
