Web site: www.lpl.arizona.edu/css
Located on Mt. Bigelow in the Santa Catalina mountains north of Tucson, Arizona, the CSS uses a standard Schmidt camera with a 27-inch (68 centimeter) aperture, an f-ratio of 1.9, and a CCD detector. The survey is allied with a southern counterpart, the Siding Spring Survey (see below).
Web site: www.ll.mit.edu/linear
The Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research project is run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory. Its funds come from the United States Air Force and NASA. LINEAR uses a pair of 40-inch (1 meter) telescopes originally developed for surveillance of Earth-orbiting satellites. The telescopes are based at Stallion Site, at the north end of White Sands Missile Range in central New Mexico.
Web site: asteroid.lowell.edu/asteroid/loneos/loneos.html
LONEOS is based on Anderson Mesa, a dozen miles southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. The search program uses a 24-inch (0.6m) Schmidt telescope equipped with a CCD camera. The site lies in the Coconino National Forest and houses several other Lowell Observatory telescopes. It is the observatory’s dark-sky site.
Web site: neat.jpl.nasa.gov
This search program, a cooperative effort between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the United States Air Force, uses two telescopes. The first is a 48-inch (1.2m) telescope at the Air Force’s Maui Space Surveillance Site in Hawaii, the other is the 48-inch (1.2m) Oschin Schmidt camera at Palomar Mountain in California.
Web site: msowww.anu.edu.au/~rmn/index.htm
The Siding Spring Survey uses a 20-inch (50cm) Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, in New South Wales, Australia. It forms the Southern Hemisphere counterpart to the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona. The SSS is operated jointly by the University of Arizona and the Australian National University, with funding from NASA.
Web site: spacewatch.lpl.arizona.edu
The University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory runs a near-Earth-object (NEO) search program using the Steward Observatory 36-inch (0.9m) Spacewatch telescope and the new Spacewatch 71-inch (1.8m) telescope, both on Kitt Peak in Arizona.
Web site: neo.jpl.nasa.gov
This is not a search program, but NASA’s coordinating office for all NEO studies.
Web site: spaceguard.esa.int/index.html
The Spaceguard Foundation is an international private organization that combines observers, both professional and amateur, as well as people and organizations with no particular astronomical background who are concerned about the protection of Earth against bombardment from objects of the solar system (comets and asteroids).
Web site: neo.jpl.nasa.gov
This is not a search program, but NASA’s coordinating office for all NEO studies.
Web site: spaceguard.esa.int/index.html
The Spaceguard Foundation is an international private organization that combines observers, both professional and amateur, as well as people and organizations with no particular astronomical background who are concerned about the protection of Earth against bombardment from objects of the solar system (comets and asteroids).
