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As usual Gary, you are an gold mine of information. The LSST project sounds fantastic but is a few years away from being operational, Chile, because of it's geology and weather is an obvious place to host the survey but I can't help being a little parochial in wanting Australia to remain as one of the southern hemispheres (re)search centres for NEOs'
Maybe some of the large mining companies could be persuaded to fund the SSS. if they were told that any large iron/ nickel meteors that were spotted in close approach could be there's for the taking. After all , the cost of 1 years operation of the SSS is less than 1 years wages for 1 mining company employee in the north west.
Jeff
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