List of near-Earth object observation projects

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List of near-Earth object observation projects is a list of projects that observe Near-Earth objects. Most are astronomical surveys intended to find undiscovered asteroids, and they sometimes find comets.

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ProjectCommissionedDecommissionedDescription
Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey 19901996
Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey 20012002
Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)2015
Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program 19962002Discovered more than 1000 minor planets [1]
Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey 2001
Catalina Sky Survey 1998About 1000 objects per year
EURONEAR 2006 [2]
International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR)1998
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search 19932008
Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite 2013Microsatellite observatory
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)19952007
NELIOTA 20172023Monitoring project of lunar impact flashes for the determination of the distribution and frequency of small NEOs
NEO Surveyor 2028
NEOSTEL 2020Planned ground-based fly-eye survey telescope
NEODyS Database of near-Earth asteroid orbits
NEOWISE 20092024Infrared survey to identify and characterize the population of near-Earth objects
Orbit@home 20082013?NEO-related distributed computing project
OGS Telescope 1995
OCA–DLR Asteroid Survey 1996 [3] 1999
Palomar–Leiden survey 19601977
Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey 19731995
Palomar Transient Factory [4] 20092012
Pan-STARRS 2008
Sentinel Space Telescope Proposed space telescope
Sentry (monitoring system)
Siding Spring Survey 20042013
Space Situational Awareness Programme 2009 [5]
Spacewatch 1984 [6]
Ukrainian Optical Facilities for Near-Earth Space Surveillance Network
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 2024Ground-based survey telescope (under construction)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Home". EURONEAR . Archived from the original on 2023-12-11. Retrieved 2024-04-06. It was established in May 2006 by Ovidiu Vaduvescu and Mirel Birlan (former Romanian astronomers) at IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France.
  3. ↑ Hahn, Gerhard (6 February 2015). "O.D.A.S. Home Page". European Asteroid Research Node. Archived from the original on 7 September 2006. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Waszczak, Adam; Prince, Thomas A.; Laher, Russ; Masci, Frank; Bue, Brian; Rebbapragada, Umaa; Barlow, Tom; Jason Surace; Helou, George (2017). "Small Near-Earth Asteroids in the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: A Real-Time Streak-detection System". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 129 (973): 034402. arXiv: 1609.08018 . doi:10.1088/1538-3873/129/973/034402. ISSN   1538-3873. S2CID   43606524.
  5. ↑ "The story so far". European Space Agency . Archived from the original on 2024-02-16. Retrieved 2024-04-06. ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme was launched in 2009
  6. ↑ "Spacewatch Telescope Detects Its First Asteroids". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
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