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DEVICE The instrument that SCAP used to detect near-Earth objects was a 60/90 cm Schmidt telescope. Equipped with a 2048x2048 CCD camera, this telescope was installed at the BAO Xinglong station in Hebei province, China. DISCOVERIES From 1995 to 1999, SCAP detected 1 new comet, 2460 new asteroids and observed 43860 other asteroids, making it the fifth largest asteroid observation project at that time. Five of the asteroids it discovered were NEAs, two of which were considered potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs). In 2002 , a NEA was discovered near our Moon . For some reason, about half of its discoveries are credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) to "BAO Schmidt" and the other half to "Beijing Schmidt". It is extremely likely that these are one and the same. List of Notable objects discovered RECENT STATUS In a conversation with Space.com contributor Michael Paine, SCAP head Jin Zhu said that the program's alloted time to use the Schmidt telescope was significantly reduced to make room for the observatory's other projects. EXTERNAL LINKS
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