The observing campaign on the deep-space debris WT1190F as a test case for short-warning NEO impacts
arXiv:1710.07684 · doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.10.006
Abstract
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.
Icarus, In Press. 5 pages, 2 figures