Activities in Europe related to the mitigation of the threat from near-Earth objects

Koschny, D.; Drolshagen, G.

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2015.03.027

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“…Surveys to meet this Congressional mandate are under way using ground-based and space-based telescopes, and programmes are in place to characterize the sizes, shapes, rotation periods, compositions (spectral classes), and other properties of NEAs. The Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme of ESA also contributes to this effort (Koschny and Drolshagen, 2015).…”

Section: Mitigation Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Science case for the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM): A component of the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission

Michel

Cheng

Küppers

et al. 2016

Advances in Space Research

103

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The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission is a joint cooperation between European and US space agencies that consists of two separate and independent spacecraft that will be launched to a binary asteroid system, the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, to test the kinetic impactor technique to deflect an asteroid. The European Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) is set to rendezvous with the asteroid system to fully characterise the smaller of the two binary components a few months prior to the impact by the US Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft. AIM is a unique mission as it will be the first time that a spacecraft will investigate the surface, subsurface, and internal properties of a small binary near-Earth asteroid. In addition it will perform various important technology demonstrations that can serve other space missions.The knowledge obtained by this mission will have great implications for our understanding of the history of the Solar System. Having direct information on the surface and internal properties of small asteroids will allow us to understand how the vaious processes they undergo work and transform these small bodies as well as, for this particular case, how a binary system forms. Making these measurements from up close and comparing them with ground-based data from telescopes will also allow us to calibrate remote observations and improve our data interpretation of other systems. With DART, thanks to the characterization of the target by AIM, the mission will be the first fully documented impact experiment at asteroid scale, which will include the characterization of the target's properties and the outcome of the impact. AIDA will thus offer a great opportunity to test and refine our understanding and models at the actual scale of an asteroid, and to check whether the current extrapolations of material strength from laboratory-scale targets to the scale of AIDA's target are valid. Moreover, it will offer a first check of the validity of the kinetic impactor concept to deflect a small body and lead to improved efficiency for future kinetic impactor designs. This paper focuses on the science return of AIM, the current knowledge of its target from ground-based observations, and the instrumentation planned to get the necessary data.

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Section: Mitigation Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Science case for the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM): A component of the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission

Michel

Cheng

Küppers

et al. 2016

Advances in Space Research

103

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“…Actually the European NEO survey contributions have been led by two amateur and public outreach facilities, namely the PIKA survey at Crni Vrh in Slovenia (which discovered 27 NEAs since 2003 using one 0.6m telescope) and the LSSS survey in La Sagra, Spain (which discovered about 100 NEAs between 2008 and 2014 using three 0.45m telescopes). Since 2010, ESA uses their 1m ESA-OGS telescope in Tenerife during a few dark nights every month for the NEA survey (TOTAS), discovering 23 NEAs, most of the time being used for tracking and finding space debris [13], [14], and [15], which include other similar activities in Europe. Soon, ESA should deploy the "fly-eye" 1m prototype telescope, aiming to increase their NEO and space debris contributions.…”

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NEARBY Platform for Automatic Asteroids Detection and EURONEAR Surveys

Gorgan,

Vaduvescu,

Stefanut

et al. 2019

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The survey of the nearby space and continuous monitoring of the Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and especially Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are essential for the future of our planet and should represent a priority for our solar system research and nearby space exploration. More computing power and sophisticated digital tracking algorithms are needed to cope with the larger astronomy imaging cameras dedicated for survey telescopes. The paper presents the NEARBY platform that aims to experiment new algorithms for automatic image reduction, detection and validation of moving objects in astronomical surveys, specifically NEAs. The NEARBY platform has been developed and experimented through a collaborative research work between the

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“…Actually, the European NEO surveys are still being led by two amateur and public outreach facilities, namely PIKA at Crni Vrh Observatory in Slovenia (which discovered 27 NEAs since 2003 using one 0.6 m telescope) and LSSS at La Sagra Observatory in Spain (which discovered about 100 NEAs between 2008 and 2014 using three 0.45 m telescopes). Since 2010, ESA uses their 1 m ESA-OGS telescope in Tenerife during a few dark nights every month for the TOTAS survey which discovered 23 NEAs, most of the time being used for tracking and finding space debris (Koschny and Busch, 2014;2015;Koschny and Drolshagen, 2015). Soon, ESA should deploy the "fly-eye" 1 m prototype telescope in Sicily, aiming to increase their NEO and space debris contributions and install other such facilities elsewhere.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ready for EURONEAR NEA surveys using the NEARBY moving source detection platform

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Activities in Europe related to the mitigation of the threat from near-Earth objects

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Science case for the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM): A component of the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission

Science case for the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM): A component of the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission

NEARBY Platform for Automatic Asteroids Detection and EURONEAR Surveys

Ready for EURONEAR NEA surveys using the NEARBY moving source detection platform

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