Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
The Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey (CINEOS) is a project that searches for near-earth objects (NEO).
The search is carried out with a Schmidt telescope at the Campo Imperatore station of the Roman Observatory, which has an aperture of 60 cm. The station is located on the high plateau Campo Imperatore , near the Corno Grande , the top of the Gran Sasso mountain range in Italy. It has the IAU observatory code 599.
So far 185 asteroids have been discovered by the project .
The data obtained are also evaluated with the Sentry monitoring system .
literature
- Andrea Boattini et al .: The Campo Imperatore Near Earth Object Survey (CINEOS). In: Earth, Moon, and Planets , Vol. 100, No. 3-4, 2007, pp. 259-271, bibcode : 2007EM & P..100..259B
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Coordinates: 42 ° 26 '39.2 " N , 13 ° 33' 28.4" E