Spacewatch

Number of NEOs detected by various projects.

Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona as of 2011 led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets. It was founded in 1980 by Tom Gehrels and McMillan.^[1][2]

Notable discoveries

• Callirrhoe^[3]
• 5145 Pholus^[4]
• 9965 GNU^[5][6]
• 9885 Linux^[7]
• 20000 Varuna^[8]
• 60558 Echeclus^[9]
• 1998 KY₂₆^[10]
• (35396) 1997 XF₁₁^[11]
• (48639) 1995 TL₈^[12]
• 1994 CC^[13]
• C/1992 J1^[14]
• 125P/Spacewatch^[15]
• (174567) 2003 MW₁₂^[16]
• 2013 BS₄₅^[17]

The project has also rediscovered 719 Albert, a long-lost asteroid.

See also

• Planetary Data System (PDS)
• Minor Planet Center
• Catalina Sky Survey
• Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)
• Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR)
• Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS)
• Pan-STARRS
• Spaceguard

References

v t e Planetary defense Main topics Asteroid Bolide Earth-grazing fireball Impact event Meteor procession Meteor shower Meteorite Meteoroid Near-Earth object Potentially hazardous object Defense Asteroid impact avoidance Asteroid close approaches Earth-crossing minor planets Gravity tractor Ion Beam Shepherd Palermo Scale Torino Scale Space probes Dawn Deep Impact Halley Armada Hayabusa NEAR Shoemaker New Horizons OSIRIS-REx Rosetta Philae Stardust NEO tracking ATLAS Catalina Sky Survey LINEAR LONEOS NEAT NEOSSat NEOCam NEODyS Orbit@home Pan-STARRS SCAP Sentinel Sentry Spacewatch WISE Organizations B612 Foundation Japan Spaceguard Association Meteoritical Society NEOShield Spaceguard The Spaceguard Foundation Potential threats 1950 DA 1994 WR12 101955 Bennu 2002 MN 2007 VK184 2009 FD 2010 RF12 99942 Apophis