On 2015 November 13, the small artificial object designated WT1190F entered the Earth atmosphere above the Indian Ocean offshore Sri Lanka after being discovered as a possible new asteroid only a few weeks earlier. At ESA's SSA-NEO Coordination Centre we took advantage of this opportunity to organize a ground-based observational campaign, using WT1190F as a test case for a possible similar future event involving a natural asteroidal body.
@article{arxiv.1710.07684,
title = {The observing campaign on the deep-space debris WT1190F as a test case for short-warning NEO impacts},
author = {Marco Micheli and Alberto Buzzoni and Detlef Koschny and Gerhard Drolshagen and Ettore Perozzi and Olivier Hainaut and Stijn Lemmens and Giuseppe Altavilla and Italo Foppiani and Jaime Nomen and Noelia Sánchez-Ortiz and Wladimiro Marinello and Gianpaolo Pizzetti and Andrea Soffiantini and Siwei Fan and Carolin Frueh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07684},
year = {2017}
}