The observing campaign on the deep-space debris WT1190F as a test case for short-warning NEO impacts

•WT1190F is a small artificial object which entered the atmosphere on 2015 November 13.•Observations of the object with different techniques were obtained by our team.•This object provided an opportunity to simulate a future impact of a natural asteroid. On 2015 November 13, the small artificial obj...

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Published in:Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) N.Y. 1962), 2018-04, Vol.304, p.4-8
Main Authors: Micheli, Marco, Buzzoni, Alberto, Koschny, Detlef, Drolshagen, Gerhard, Perozzi, Ettore, Hainaut, Olivier, Lemmens, Stijn, Altavilla, Giuseppe, Foppiani, Italo, Nomen, Jaime, Sánchez-Ortiz, Noelia, Marinello, Wladimiro, Pizzetti, Gianpaolo, Soffiantini, Andrea, Fan, Siwei, Frueh, Carolin
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Language:English
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Asteroids
Dynamics
Near-Earth objects
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Summary:•WT1190F is a small artificial object which entered the atmosphere on 2015 November 13.•Observations of the object with different techniques were obtained by our team.•This object provided an opportunity to simulate a future impact of a natural asteroid. On 2015 November 13, the small artificial object designated WT1190F entered the Earth atmosphere above the Indian Ocean offshore Sri Lanka after being discovered as a possible new asteroid only a few weeks earlier. At ESA’s SSA-NEO Coordination Centre we took advantage of this opportunity to organize a ground-based observational campaign, using WT1190F as a test case for a possible similar future event involving a natural asteroidal body.
ISSN:0019-1035
1090-2643
DOI:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.10.006