The Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey (ADAS) is a project to search for comets and asteroids, with special emphasis on near-Earth objects.
It is a joint venture between the Department of Astronomy of the University of Padua (using the Schmidt telescope at Asiago-CimaEkar) and the DLR - Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration at Berlin-Adlershof, Germany. DLR stands for Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, the German Aerospace Center. Co-located with the Stazione osservativa di Asiago Cima Ekar, (Cima Ekar Observing Station), ADAS has IAU code 209.
Principal investigators are Cesare Barbieri (at Padua/Asiago) and Gerhard Hahn (at DLR Berlin-Adlershof).
The project works in collaboration with UDAS, the Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey.
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