NEO search telescope in China
Abstract
Chinese scientists have contributed many research works to the field of asteroid surveying and related topics. In the early 1960s, Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) began observing asteroids and found over 130 new numbered asteroids during the following decades. The Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program (SCAP) of Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO) started in 1995 and found 575 asteroids in several years.
- Publication:
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Near Earth Objects, our Celestial Neighbors: Opportunity and Risk
- Pub Date:
- May 2007
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..236..381M
- Keywords:
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- Survey;
- telescope;
- observation site