Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: 118401 LINEAR (provisional designation 1999 RE70) is an asteroid and main-belt comet (176P/LINEAR) that was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) 1-metre telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico on September 7, 1999. 
 Question: Who made 118401 LINEAR known?
Output (English): lincoln near-earth asteroid research