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

See also

  • EURONEAR
  • List of comets discovered by the LINEAR project
  • Minor Planet Center
  • Planetary Data System

References

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  • The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Program Grant H. Stokes, Frank Shelly, Herbert E.M. Viggh, Matthew S. Blythe, and Joseph S. Stuart
  • Near Earth Object program – discovery statistics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory