Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded...
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Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR), Spacewatch, Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT), Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS)...
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Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Lowell Observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the...
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University of Paris. He was principal investigator of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS). He has discovered a large number of asteroids...
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discovered February 11, 1983 by Edward L. G. Bowell of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS), was named in his honour. "Minor Planet Discoverers...
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This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small...
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15017 Cuppy (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
diameter. It was discovered on 22 September 1998, by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) at its Anderson Mesa Station, Arizona, United...
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theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that...
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C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) (category Astronomical objects discovered in 2007)
hyperbolic comet discovered on March 19, 2007 as part as the Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search (LONEOS). The comet reached perihelion, or closest approach...
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of the Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II). The telescope used in the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) is also a Schmidt...
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Planets beyond Neptune (redirect from U (trans-Neptunian object))
orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century and continued at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the...
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Impact event (redirect from Earth impacts)
Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR), Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT), Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search (LONEOS) and several others which have...
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Asteroid impact avoidance (redirect from Near Earth asteroid defense)
search capability. Other near-Earth object tracking programs include Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT), Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search...
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(163899) 2003 SD220 (category Near-Earth objects in 2018)
the Earth. It was discovered on 29 September 2003, by astronomers of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff...
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(434326) 2004 JG6 (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
leading astronomer Brian Skiff of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) at Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, United States. The body's...
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(p) Low Altitude Missile Engagement Zone LONEOS – (a) Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search LOOGY – (p/a) Lefty One-Out GuY, a sometimes pejorative...
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Asteroid impact prediction (category Near-Earth asteroids)
a further NASA report recommended search surveys that would discover 60–70% of the short-period, near-Earth objects larger than one kilometer within ten...
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Anderson Mesa Station (redirect from Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station)
6 m (24 in) Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) Schmidt camera was used to search for asteroids and other near-earth objects. It was built...
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(153814) 2001 WN5 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It was discovered by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at Anderson...
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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...
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Pluto (category Discoveries by the Lowell Observatory)
Percival Lowell—a wealthy Bostonian who had founded Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1894—started an extensive project in search of a possible...
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the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search conducted in Flagstaff, Arizona for main-belt asteroids that have a risk of coming close to Earth, observers...
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Clyde Tombaugh (category Discoverers of trans-Neptunian objects)
appear stationary. Tombaugh noticed such a moving object in his search, near the place predicted by Lowell, and subsequent observations showed it to have...
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Sedna (dwarf planet) (redirect from Sedna (object))
telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California, using Yale's 160-megapixel Palomar Quest camera. On that day, an object was observed to move...
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Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Project is another example of a professional robotic telescope. LINEAR's competitors, the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object...
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Observatory, US 1894: Lowell Observatory, US 1895: Theodor Jacobsen Observatory, US 1897: Yerkes Observatory, US 1899: Kodaikanal Solar Observatory,...
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C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) (category Near-Earth comets)
asteroidal object with an apparent magnitude of about 16. Precovery images from 3 and 5 January from Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS)...
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12923 Zephyr (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
11 April 1999, by astronomers of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona. The asteroid was named...
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(101869) 1999 MM (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It was discovered on 20 June 1999, by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object...
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dedicated to the search for planets around other stars using the transit method. It operated in conjunction with telescopes at Lowell Observatory and in the...
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