Minor Planet Center

at 60 Garden St, MS-18, Cambridge , 02138 United States

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Description

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, MA, under the auspices of Division III of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The MPC is responsible for the designation of minor bodies in the solar system: minor planets, natural satellites and comets (in conjunction with the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams). The MPC is also responsible for the collection, computation, checking and dissemination of astrometric observations and orbits for minor planets, comets, and natural satellites, as well as helping observers coordinate their observations of Near Earth Objects (NEOs). In short, we receive observations from around the world of minor planets; we catalogue and analyse them, and maybe most importantly, search for NEOs (asteroids and comets) that might be on a collision course with Earth.

General Info

— Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MinorPlanetCtr — Follow us on Google+: http://plus.google.com/103523519128767953332 — Read our blog: http://www.MinorPlanetCenter.net/blog — If you want to see what rocks are heading our way now, check out the MPC's forthcoming approaches page: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/CloseApp.html Terms of Use for this Facebook page can be found here: http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

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Minor Planet Center is Cambridge based place and this enity listed in Organization category. Located at 60 Garden St, MS-18 MA 02138.