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The principal investigator is Eleanor F. Helin, with co-investigators Steven H. Pravdo and David L. Rabinowitz.
NEAT has a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Air Force to use a GEODSS telescope located on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. GEODSS stands for Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance and these wide field Air Force telescopes were designed to optically observe Earth orbital spacecraft. The NEAT team designed a CCD camera and computer system for the GEODSS telescope. The CCD camera format is 4096 × 4096 pixels and the field of view is 1.2° × 1.6°.
Beginning in April 2001, the 1.2 metre aperture Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory was also put into service to discover and track near-Earth objects. This telescope is equipped with three cameras, each of which has its own 4096 × 4096 CCD array. This is the telescope that produced the images leading to the discovery of 50000 QuaoarThis article is about the trans-Neptunian object. For the Tongva god, see Quaoar (deity). 50000 Quaoar ( /"kwA o Ar/) is a Trans-Neptunian object orbiting the Sun in the Edgeworth- Kuiper belt. It was discovered on June 4, 2002 by astronomers Chadwick A. in 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom, and 90377 Sedna90377 Sedna is a Trans-Neptunian object discovered by Mike Brown ( Caltech), Chad Trujillo ( Gemini Observatory) and David L. Rabinowitz ( Yale University) on November 14, 2003. Its discovery was the farthest distance at which any natural object in the so in 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U (published 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co).
In addition to discovering thousands of asteroidAn asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. An asteroid is an example of a minor planet (or planetoid , which are much smaller than planets. The asteroids are believed to be remnants of the protoplanetary disc which were nos, NEAT is also credited with the co-discovery (recovery) of periodic cometHalley's Comet nucleus sunlit from the left. A comet is a relatively small astronomical object similar to an asteroid but composed largely of ice. In Earth's solar system, the orbits of comets may extend past that of Pluto; of the comets which enter the i 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT and of the high proper motion Teegarden's starTeegarden's Star also known as SO025300. 5+165258 is a star in the constellation Aries which was found in 2003 to have a very large proper motion (5. 03 arcsec/year). Only seven stars with such large proper motions are currently known. It appears to be a.