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Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
Alternative names LINEAR
Survey type astronomical survey Edit this on Wikidata
Target near-Earth object Edit this on Wikidata
Website www.ll.mit.edu/LINEAR
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Coordinates: 33°49′05.3″N 106°39′33.0″W / 33.818139°N 106.659167°W / 33.818139; -106.659167

The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project is a collaboration of the United States Air Force, NASA, and the MIT'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.


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