Mount Lemmon Survey

Mount Lemmon Survey ( MLS) is part of the Catalina Sky Survey and bears the registration number G96. The main task is to search for near-Earth objects ( NEO ) and potentially hazardous asteroids ( Potentially hazardous asteroid, also called PHAs ). The instrument used for this is installed on the top of Mount Lemmon 152 cm Cassegrain telescope.

On 7 October 2008, got by the Italian astronomer Andrea Boattini to a random rediscovery of the "lost" comet 206P/Barnard-Boattini. The comet had completed twenty rounds since its first discovery on October 13, 1892, while the Jupiter happened in the years 1922, 1934 and 2005 at distances between 0.3 and 0.4 AU.