List of near-Earth object observation projects explained

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.

Project	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Description
Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey	1990	1996
Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey	2001	2002
Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)	2015
Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program	1996	2002	discovered more than 1000 minor planets^[1]
Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey	2001
Catalina Sky Survey	1998		About 1000 objects per year
EURONEAR	2006^[2]
International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR)	1998
	1993	2008
	2013		microsatellite observatory
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)	1995	2007
NEO Surveyor	2028
NEOSTEL	2020		planned ground-based fly-eye survey telescope
NEODyS			Database of near earth asteroid orbits
NEOWISE	2009		infrared survey to identify and characterize the population of near-Earth objects
Orbit@home	2008	2013?	NEO-related distributed computing project
OGS Telescope	1995
OCA–DLR Asteroid Survey	1996^[3]	1999
Palomar–Leiden survey	1960	1977
Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey	1973	1995
Palomar Transient Factory^[4]	2009	2012
Pan-STARRS	2008
Sentinel Space Telescope			proposed space telescope
Sentry (monitoring system)
Siding Spring Survey	2004	2013
Space Situational Awareness Programme	2009^[5]
Spacewatch	1984^[6]
Ukrainian Optical Facilities for Near-Earth Space Surveillance Network
Vera C. Rubin Observatory	2024		ground-based survey telescope (under construction)

See also

• List of asteroid close approaches to Earth
• Asteroid impact prediction
  • Space debris
• Astronomical survey
• Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys
• List of asteroid-discovering observatories

External links

• The Catalina Sky Survey: Exploration leads to discovery
• overview graph of asteroid discovery since 1800
• List of asteroid surveys

Notes and References

1. Web site: Minor Planet Discoverers (by number). Minor Planet Center . 12 January 2017 . 2 February 2017.
2. Web site: Home . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211071134/http://www.euronear.org/ . 2023-12-11 . 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. Web site: Hahn . Gerhard . 6 February 2015 . O.D.A.S. Home Page . European Asteroid Research Node . 10 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060907051602/http://earn.dlr.de/odas/ . 7 September 2006 . dead .
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. en. 129. 973. 034402. 10.1088/1538-3873/129/973/034402. 1538-3873. 1609.08018. 43606524 .
5. Web site: The story so far . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240216150215/https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/The_story_so_far . 2024-02-16 . 2024-04-06 . . ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme was launched in 2009.
6. News: Spacewatch Telescope Detects Its First Asteroids. ScienceDaily. 2018-11-18. en.