List of near-Earth object observation projects

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
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search 1993 2008
Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite 2013 Microsatellite observatory
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) 1995 2007
NELIOTA 2017 2023 Monitoring project of lunar impact flashes for the determination of the distribution and frequency of small NEOs
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)
  • Annual NEA discoveries by survey: (all NEAs)
    Annual NEA discoveries by survey: (all NEAs)
  • Annual NEA discoveries by survey: (NEAs > 1 km)
    Annual NEA discoveries by survey: (NEAs > 1 km)
  • A telescope used by the Catalina Sky Survey
    A telescope used by the Catalina Sky Survey
  • WISE, used for NEOWISE
    WISE, used for NEOWISE

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.