A B S T R A C T  
1. Introduction  
1.1. NEO population definitions  
2. MITHNEOS observations with the NASA IRTF and MIT Magellan telescope  
2.1. Building the full data set with visible spectra and external data  
3. Systematic effects, corrections, and taxonomic classification  
4. Population distributions and spectral alteration effects  
4.1. Taxonomic distribution of the near-Earth object population  
4.2. Principal component analysis of the near-Earth object population  
4.3. Space weathering and shock darkening trends revealed by the NEO population  
5. Mineralogical modeling of the NEO population  
6. Dynamical modeling for the NEO Population: Source regions for taxonomic classes  
7.1. Methodology for convolving probability distribution functions  
8. Dynamical modeling for the NEO population: Surface refreshing processes  
9. Conclusions and future work