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Encyclopedia > LONEOS

Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) is a program run by NASA and Lowell Observatory to discover near-Earth objects. The LONEOS system began observations in December 1997.


The principal investigator is Ted Bowell.


In addition to discovering thousands of asteroids, LONEOS has also discovered the periodic comets 150P/LONEOS and 159P/LONEOS.


External links

  • Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (http://asteroid.lowell.edu/asteroid/loneos/loneos.html)

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Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (156 words)
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) is a program run by NASA and Lowell Observatory to discover near-Earth objects.
The LONEOS system began observations in December 1997.
LONEOS uses a Schmidt camera system with a 0.6m aperture primary mirror that gives a wide field of view of about 3° of the sky.
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