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Asteroid Day! Earth Plays Defense

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Isa's Orbit Computation Center in Pisa, Italy

We already had a large present of colleges at our italian location, which we call estwin. They deal with this topic of observing asteroids, computing their orbits and warning the emergency response agencies. Until last year, still, we were relying in a lot of our esa orbit computations on the group in pisa. We're working closely with them. But now we have our own orbit computation system,. It's called asto d, and we will give it a nice, fancy name, probably on asteroid day. I willonce then that is now really onpar wit, say, the j p l centry computation system, which does essentially the same thing.

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