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NEO follow-up, recovery and precovery campaigns at the ESA NEO Coordination Centre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2016

Marco Micheli ,
Detlef Koschny ,
Gerhard Drolshagen ,
Ettore Perozzi  and
Barbara Borgia
Marco Micheli
Affiliation:
ESA NEO Coordination Centre, Frascati (RM), Italy email: marco.micheli@esa.int SpaceDyS s.r.l., Cascina (PI), Italy INAF-IAPS, Roma (RM), Italy
Detlef Koschny
Affiliation:
ESA NEO Coordination Centre, Frascati (RM), Italy email: marco.micheli@esa.int ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Chair of Astronautics, Technical Univ. Munich, Garching, Germany
Gerhard Drolshagen
Affiliation:
ESA NEO Coordination Centre, Frascati (RM), Italy email: marco.micheli@esa.int ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Ettore Perozzi
Affiliation:
ESA NEO Coordination Centre, Frascati (RM), Italy email: marco.micheli@esa.int INAF-IAPS, Roma (RM), Italy Deimos Space, Bucharest, Romania
Barbara Borgia
Affiliation:
ESA NEO Coordination Centre, Frascati (RM), Italy email: marco.micheli@esa.int SpaceDyS s.r.l., Cascina (PI), Italy INAF-IAPS, Roma (RM), Italy
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Abstract

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The NEO Coordination Centre (NEOCC) has been established within the framework of the ESA Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Programme. Among its tasks are the coordination of observational activities and the distribution of up-to-date information on NEOs through its web portal.

The Centre is directly involved in observational campaigns with various telescopes, including ESO's VLT and ESA's OGS telescope. We are also developing a network of collaborating observatories, with a variety of capabilities, which are alerted when an important observational opportunity arises.

From a service perspective, the system hosted at the NEOCC collects information on NEOs produced by European services and makes it available to users, with a focus on objects with possible collisions with the Earth. Among the tools provided via our portal are the Risk List of all known NEOs with impact solutions, and the Priority List, which allows observers to identify NEOs in most urgent need of observations.

Keywords

minor planetsasteroids
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S318: Asteroids: New Observations, New Models , August 2015 , pp. 274 - 281
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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