Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey

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Campo Imperatore observatory , Gran Sasso.

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