OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
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The OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey (ODAS) was a European scientific project to search for asteroids. The project was started in October 1996 and was discontinued in April 1999. The project was operated out of the Schmidt telescope near Nice, France. The project was the joint work of the Observatoire de la côte d'azur in France and the Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Germany. Throughout its tenure, the project was responsible for the discovery of nearly 700 asteroids.
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