LINEAR

[Bill Dillon <bdillon@houston.geoquest.slb.com>]

Arne wrote (in part):

>I'm not up to speed on these various asteroid search programs 
>(other than LONEOS).  LINEAR is the New Mexico experiment?  

Yes.

>Where and what size telescope/detector?

Here's a fragment from one of the last MPECs:
 704 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico.  Observers M. Blythe, F. Shelly,
    M. Bezpalko.  Measurers J. Stuart, H. Viggh.  1.0-m f/2.15 reflector + CCD. 

>NEAT is the Mauna Kea experiment? 

Yes.  They have a nice web site at http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html

Regarding these professional surveys putting amateurs out of business,
perhaps so, but I've heard the same thing about automated supernovae 
searches -- and amateurs are still making discoveries just fine, thank
you.

Regards,

--Bill Dillon    
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7477/

P.S. Please keep us up to date on your new photometry book, Arne!