Optical observations of the BepiColombo spacecraft as a proxy for a potential threatening asteroid

Marco Micheli; Detlef Koschny; Luca Conversi; Frank Budnik; Bill Gray; Toni Santana-Ros; Rafał Reszelewski; Michał Żołnowski; Marcin Gȩdek; Bruce Gendre; David Coward; Igor E. Molotov; Vasilij Rumyantsev; Alexios Liakos; Sergei Schmalz

doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.04.022

Optical observations of the BepiColombo spacecraft as a proxy for a potential threatening asteroid

Marco Micheli, Detlef Koschny, Luca Conversi, Frank Budnik, Bill Gray, Toni Santana-Ros, Rafał Reszelewski, Michał Żołnowski, Marcin Gȩdek, Bruce Gendre, David Coward, Igor E. Molotov, Vasilij Rumyantsev, Alexios Liakos, Sergei Schmalz

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We present the results of our ground-based astrometric observation campaign of BepiColombo during its Earth fly-by on 2020 April 10. The observational circumstances induced by the fly-by geometry made this event an excellent proxy for a close fly-by or an imminent impact of a natural body with a diameter of a few meters, with the added benefit of having a ground-truth orbit (from radio tracking) to compare with our purely optical orbit determination.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	251-258
Number of pages	8
Journal	Acta Astronautica
Volume	184
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.04.022
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

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Micheli, M., Koschny, D., Conversi, L., Budnik, F., Gray, B., Santana-Ros, T., Reszelewski, R., Żołnowski, M., Gȩdek, M., Gendre, B., Coward, D., Molotov, I. E., Rumyantsev, V., Liakos, A., & Schmalz, S. (2021). Optical observations of the BepiColombo spacecraft as a proxy for a potential threatening asteroid. Acta Astronautica, 184, 251-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.04.022

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Optical observations of the BepiColombo spacecraft as a proxy for a potential threatening asteroid

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