Question: Information: - 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. - 163693 Atira , provisional designation 2003 CP20 , is an eccentric , stony asteroid , dwelling in the interior of Earth 's orbit . It is classified as a near - Earth object and measures about 2 kilometers in diameter . The body was discovered by the Lincoln Near - Earth Asteroid Research project 's station at the U.S. Magdalena Ridge Observatory in Socorro , New Mexico , on 11 February 2003 . It is the namesake and the first numbered body of a new subclass of near - Earth asteroids , the Atira ( Apohele ) asteroids , which have their orbits entirely within that of Earth and are therefore alternatively called Interior - Earth Objects ( IEO ) . As of 2015 , there are only 16 known members of the Atira group of asteroids . Atiras are similar to the larger group of Aten asteroids , as both are near - Earth objects and both have a semi-major axis smaller than that of Earth ( < 1.0 AU ) . However , and contrary to Aten asteroids , the aphelion for Atiras is always smaller than Earth 's perihelion ( < 0.983 AU ) , which means that they do not approach Earth as close as Atens do in general . The body has an Earth Minimum orbit intersection distance ( MOID ) of 0.2065 AU ( 30,890,000 km ) . The S - type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.5 -- 1.0 AU once every 8 months ( 233 days ) . Its orbit is significantly tilted by 26 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and shows a high eccentricity of 0.32 . It has a rotation period of almost 3 hours and an albedo of 0.20 , assumed by the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link ( CALL ) . With a perihelion of 0.50 AU the body also classifies as a Venus - crosser -- as Venus orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.72 -- 0.73 AU -- but does not get as close to the Sun as Mercury ( which orbits at 0.31 -- 0.47 AU ) . Knowing that traditionally the first known object in a new class of asteroids will become the name of the new class of asteroids , due consideration was given to the name for ( 163693 ) . The other classes of near - Earth asteroids are Amors , Apollos , and Atens (... - 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. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which '163693 atira' exhibits the relationship of 'site of astronomical discovery'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - lincoln laboratory - socorro
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lincoln laboratory