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Research groups and other organizations working on NEOs:
- Spaceguard Foundation
- NEODyS (Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site) of the University of Pisa
- NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office site at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- EARN (European Asteroid Research Node), an informal association of European research
- The MPC (Minor Planet Center), responsible for the collection and dissemination of astrometric observations and orbits for minor planets and comets on behalf of the IAU (International Astronomical Union)
- The Asteroid Radar Research of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- The CSS (Catalina Sky Survey), providing observations and follow-up of NEO discoveries
- EUNEASO (European NEO Search, Follow-up and Physical Observation Programme), a cooperation between European institutes
- LINEAR, a near-Earth object discovery facility at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory
- LONEOS (Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search), a system designed to find Earth-crossing asteroids and comets.
- NEAT (Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking), an automated search for near-Earth asteroids and comets
- The Spacewatch Project is a semi-automated system for the discovery of Near-Earth asteroids.
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