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Near Earth Asteroid Reconnaissance Project
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The Near Earth Asteroid Reconnaissance Project (N.E.A.R.) is a world-wide network of amateur astronomers and space scientists involved in the discovery and determination of the orbits of near-earth asteroids or more generally near-earth objects with possible earth-crossing orbits. Its goals are to identify such objects to further the study of space science and to identify those that may be on collision path with earth to avoid catastrophic impact events such as those that led to the Tunguska event in Siberia and the possibilty of mass extinction as may have occured with dinosaurs by employing future avoidance strategies. N.E.A.R.’s administrative and research offices are in Oak Park, Illinois. History The N.E.A.R. Project was created and developed in 1994 by Les Golden when he was an instructor in the physics department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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