Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
Also known as LINEAR
research project, collaboration between the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory
Key facts
- Alternative names
- LINEAR
- Website
- www .ll .mit .edu /impact /watch-potentially-hazardous-asteroids
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.ll.mit.edu/impact/watch-potentially-hazardous-asteroids
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- inception
- 1996-01-01
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Number of NEOs detected by various projects:
The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project is a collaboration of the United States Air Force, NASA, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid discoveries from 1998 until it was overtaken by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2005. As of 15 September 2011, LINEAR had detected 231,082 new small Solar System bodies, of which at least 2,423 were near-Earth asteroids and 279 were comets. The instruments used by the LINEAR program are located at Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site (ETS) on the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) near Socorro, New Mexico.