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Some of my NEO-related presentations and other documents which may be of interest.

Observing asteroids - Stardust School Belgrade, Feb 2015.
Some useful Python routines for this.

NEOs for engineers and scientists - script status 08 Apr 2019.

SMPAG and IAWN history - background on the formation of these UN-related groups (pdf)
Interface to emergency response (presented to emergency response agencies, Sep 2013 (ppt)
OGS follow-up observation planning - presentation to the TBT team on 11 Jan 2013 (ppt)

NEOs for engineers and physicists

Here are the viewgraphs I have been using for the lecture 'NEOs for engineers and physicists' in the summer semester 2023 at the 'Professorship for Lunar and Planetary Exploration', Technical University of Munich. I also provide some super-simple Python scripts to illustrate some of the stuff I am teaching.

NEO lecture 01 - Introduction to the topic of NEOs
NEO lecture 02 - Observations of NEOs
NEO lecture 03 - Physical properties of NEOs
NEO lecture 04 - Physical properties - radar
NEO lecture 05 - From measurements to orbits
NEO lecture 06 - Orbits to impact warnings
NEO lecture 07 - Impact effects and consequences
NEO lecture 08 - Deflection missions
NEO lecture 09 - Politics
NEO lecture 11 - Summary

Python scripts

Some useful Python routines to compute things from the course. spice_demo.py - a simple routine to demonstrate the strength of JPLs 'SPICE' system to work on geometrical problems in the solar system.
Exercises_5_orbits_task_1.py - A script to produce the position of an object on a Kepler orbit as a function of time. It will produce a text output and a nice diagram in poloar coordinates.

For historical reasons: The slides of my first course in 2012

Last update 12 Sep 2023