NEO-MAPP

[8][9] The main NEO-MAPP goal is to provide significant advances, both on understanding the response of asteroids to external forces (in particular to kinetic impact or to immediate approach of a planet), and in associated measures carried out by a space craft (including those necessary to physical and dynamical characterization in general).

Several communities are interested in asteroids for pour various reasons, from Science to planetary defence and even business objectives (for instance mining, resource extraction and exploitation).

[10] Given the principle scientific and technological sharing, all these communities are seeking knowledge and means of asteroid property modelisations, as well as capacity to achieve operations at close proximity of a celestial small body and to obtain relevant measures.

[20] Results obtained by the project contribute to provide significant advances in our comprehension of NEOs while yielding profit and increasing progress in the expertise European scientists and engineers, both in terms of efforts dedicated to planetary defence and to small bodies exploration.

[25] The project has also given itself the objective to increase media coverage of scientific space research dedicated to planetary defence, public outreach (in particular among the youngest and science and engineering students) to impact risks and coverage of this global risk by the European scientific community, admittedly at low probability but factually at high consequence for Earth, by the combination of videos published on its website and by interventions in the medias.