Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. German Aerospace Center Institute of Planetary Research SECTION: “PHYSICS OF SMALL BODIES AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS” Annual Report 2003 OBSERVATIONS MODELLIN G FIREWATCH TECHNOLOGY SPACE MISSIONS http://solarsystem.dlr.de/KK 0 From left to right: First row: Detlef de Niem
[email protected] Scientific staff member Dr. Alan W. Harris
[email protected] Deputy section leader Dr. Anders Erikson1
[email protected] Scientific staff member Dr. Carmen Tornow
[email protected] Scientific staff member Second row: Holger Voss1
[email protected] PhD student Dr. Gerhard Hahn
[email protected] Scientific staff member Prof. U. Motschmann
[email protected] Guest scientist Dr. Heike Rauer1
[email protected] Group leader Dr. Ekkehard Kührt
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[email protected] Scientific staff member Rosemarie Mooseder Secretary (retired) Michael Müller
[email protected] PhD student Martin Prescher Guest student Egon Braatz
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[email protected] PhD student Michael Weiler 1
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[email protected] PhD student 1 Group: Extrasolar planets and cometary atmospheres 1 Contents Contents................................................................................................................................ 2 1. Introduction (E. Kührt)....................................................................................................... 3 2. Asteroid science................................................................................................................ 4 2.1 Keck thermal-infrared observations of near-Earth asteroids (A. W. Harris)..................... 4 2.2 Investigations of the physical properties of near-Earth asteroids with data from the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (A.