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title: "The Daily Minor Planet"
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The Daily Minor Planet is a citizen science project run by the Zooniverse and The Catalina Sky Survey with a funding grant from NASA, to use citizen science volunteer classifications to discover asteroids with recent data from the G96 Mount Lemmon Survey 1.52 m (60 in) cassegrain reflector telescope. The main objective of the project is to search for undiscovered asteroids in order to protect the planet by locating potentially harmful Near-Earth asteroids.
The main-belt asteroid 227711 Dailyminorplanet was named in honor of thousands of volunteers who have participated in this project.


== List of Notable Discoveries ==


== See also ==
Backyard Worlds
Active Asteroids (citizen science project)
Disk Detective
Galaxy Zoo
Planet Hunters


== References ==