Given the question: Information: - 17198 Gorjup , provisional designation 2000 AA31 , is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt , about 2.7 kilometers in diameter . It was discovered by the Lincoln Near - Earth Asteroid Research team ( LINEAR ) at the U.S. Magdalena Ridge Observatory in Socorro , New Mexico , on 3 January 2000 . The S - type asteroid is a member of the Flora family , one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main - belt . It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0 -- 2.5 AU once every 3 years and 5 months ( 1,257 days ) . Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 3 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic . In 2008 , a photometric light - curve analysis by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at Ondejov Observatory , near Prague , rendered a well - defined rotation period of 3.2430 0.0005 hours with a brightness variation of 0.12 in magnitude ( U = 3 ) . The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 , a typical value for asteroids with a stony surface composition , and identical to the albedo of the Flora family 's namesake , the asteroid 8 Flora . The minor planet was named after Slovenian Niko Gorjup ( b. 1984 ) who was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair ( ISEF ) for his physics team project . At the time , he attended the Solski Center Nova Gorica , Gimnazija , Nova Gorica , Slovenia . - Socorro is a city in Socorro County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is in the Rio Grande Valley at an elevation of . In 2012 the population was 8,906. It is the county seat of Socorro County. Socorro is located south of Albuquerque and north of Las Cruces. - The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project is a collaboration of the United States Air Force, NASA, and the MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid discoveries from 1998 until it was overtaken by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2005. , LINEAR had detected 231,082 new small Solar System bodies, of which at least 2,423 were near-Earth asteroids and 279 were comets. The instruments used by the LINEAR program are located at Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site (ETS) on the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) near Socorro, New Mexico. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to '17198 gorjup' with the relationship of 'site of astronomical discovery'. Choices: - lincoln laboratory - socorro
The answer is:
lincoln laboratory