The NEOShield-2 EU project: the Italian contribution

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Date Issued
2016
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Cortese, M.
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Lazzarin, M.
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Bertini, I.
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Magrin, S.
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Perozzi, E.
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Micheli, M.
Description
We aknowledge financial sup-port from the NEOShield-2 project, funded by theEuropean Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme(Contract No. PROTEC-2-2014-640351)
Abstract
The NEOShield-2 (2015-2017) project has been recently approved by the European Commission in the framework of the Horizon 2020 programme with the aim i) to study specific technologies and instruments to conduct close approach missions to NEOs or to undertake mitigation demonstration, and ii) to acquire in-depth information of physical properties of the population of small NEOs (50-300 m), in order to design mitigation missions and assess the consequences of an impact on Earth. The Italian scientific community is widely involved in this project.
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87
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83
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0037-8720
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2016MmSAI..87...83D
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