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Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Objects Survey (CINEOS) is a project that looks for near-earth objects. Near-Earth objects (NEO) are asteroids, comets and large meteoroids whose orbit intersects Earths orbit and which may therefore pose a collision danger. ...


The search is carried out using the Schmidt telescope of the Campo Imperatore station of the Rome Observatory near the summit of the Gran Sasso Mountain. Jump to: navigation, search City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost... Gran Sasso (Italian for great stone), a massif located in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, is the highest of the Apennines and the centerpiece of a national park (established 1991). ...


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  • http://sirio.rm.astro.it/cimperatore/en/cineos.html


 
 

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