EURONEAR, the European Near Earth Asteroids Research, is a research project and network for the research and discovery of near-Earth objects and potentially hazardous asteroids using existing telescopes located in both hemispheres available to the members of the network. The Minor Planet Center directly credits EURONEAR with the discovery of few hundred minor planets since 2008, including 11 near-Earth asteroids.
Institutions
Institutions which collaborate in this project are: :fr:Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides (IMCCE), France (May 2006) European Southern Observatory (ESO), Chile (Sep 2006) Universidad Católica del Norte Instituto de Astronomía, Chile (Mar 2007) Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING), La Palma, Spain (Jan 2008) Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife, Spain (Apr 2009) The dates represent the time at which the institutions joined the project.
List of named minor planets discovered with the ESO/MPG telescope in La Silla
List of near-Earth asteroids discovered with the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) in La Palma