EURONEAR, the European Near Earth Asteroids Research, is a research project and network for the research and discovery of

near-Earth object A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth. By convention, a Solar System body is a NEO if its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU) ...

s and potentially hazardous asteroids using existing telescopes located in both hemispheres available to the members of the network. The

Minor Planet Center The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Function ...

directly credits EURONEAR with the discovery of few hundred

minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term '' ...

s since 2008, including 11 near-Earth asteroids.

Institutions

Institutions which collaborate in this project are: * :fr:Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides (IMCCE), France (May 2006) *

European Southern Observatory The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 mem ...

(ESO), Chile (Sep 2006) * ''Universidad Católica del Norte Instituto de Astronomía'', Chile (Mar 2007) *

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes or ING consists of three optical telescopes: the William Herschel Telescope, the Isaac Newton Telescope, and the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope, operated by a collaboration between the UK Science and Technology ...

(ING), La Palma, Spain (Jan 2008) * Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife, Spain (Apr 2009) The dates represent the time at which the institutions joined the project.

List of named minor planets discovered with the ESO/MPG telescope in La Silla

List of near-Earth asteroids discovered with the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) in La Palma

References

Publications

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