ettore
perozzi
S
U M M
A R Y O F E V E N T S
1975-1981
Laurea
degree in Physics (23 April 1981) discussing an original
research on the
numerical methods used in
celestial mechanics to integrate the
N-body problem.
Note: 110/110.
1981-1983
Research
fellow at the Planetology
Branch of the Space Astrophysics Institute of the
Italian National Council of Research (IAS-CNR,
Rome, Italy) on the dynamics of
the Minor Bodies of the Solar
System.
Collaboration
with the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
(Bratislava,
CSSR) for studying the dynamics of Short-Period
Comets.
Participation
to the Long-Term Evolution Project (LTEP):
a detailed investigation of the
orbital evolution of the whole Short-Period Comets population.
Founder
member of MIZAR a.r.l., a
private company for educational purposes in the field
of Astronomy.
Beginning
of a long-standing collaboration with the italian astronomical popular
magazine L'ASTRONOMIA.
1983
Fulfillment
of military duties.
Visiting
Scientist at the Mission Analysis Office of the European Space
Operations
Center (ESA-ESOC, Darmstadt,
Germany).
Studies
on the transfer trajectory of the SOHO (Solar Heliospheric Observatory)
mission.
Member
of the Study Team of the
ESA/NASA CASSINI mission to
Saturn: Huygens probe
descent trajectory in the atmosphere of Titan and dynamics of the probe
delivery.
Invited
lecturer at the international meeting "The
Solid Bodies of the Outer Solar
System" (Vulcano, Italy, 18-25 Sept. 1985) on the dynamics of
the
Cassini-Titan close encounter.
From
LTEP data, periodic comets Van
Biesbroek and Neuijmin 3 are discovered to be the remnants of a
parent comet which splitted during a close encounter with Jupiter in
1850.
1986-1987
The
book Long-Term
Evolution of Short-Period Comets, summarizing the results of
LTEP, is published by Adam Hilger (Bristol and Boston).
In
collaboration with the Planetology Branch of IAS-CNR: dynamics of Halley-type
comets and Asteroid Photometric
Catalogue.
Consultant
of Consorzio Italspazio (Rome,
Italy)
for the development of an orbital mechanics software and its
application to the
motion of near-Earth artificial satellites in high-eccentricity,
high-inclination orbits.
1987-1988
Research
fellowship at the Osservatorio
Astronomico Collurania (Teramo, Italy).
Collaboration
with the Department of Astronomy of the University of Glasgow
(Scotland, UK) on
the Lunar Saros cycle.
Member
of the Science Team of the PIAZZI mission, a proposal for a
low-cost Italian
mission towards the Apollo-Amor asteroids.
Consultant
of Telespazio (Rome, Italy),
the Italian leading firm for space communications:
trajectory optimization and interplanetary mission design.
1989-1992
Staff
member at Telespazio in the Mission
Analysis Department.
Head
of
the SAX (the Italian X-ray
astronomy satellite) flight dynamics
team: mission
analysis and flight dynamics system design.
Discovery
of Saros-like periodic orbits
close to that of the Moon.
Lectures
on interplanetary mission analysis
at the Aerospace Engineering Department of
the University of Rome.
Public
conference on the Ubiquity of Chaos
at the Milan Planetarium.
Scientific
concept of the public exhibition "Cercatori
di Massa", to be held in
Roma.
1993
Co-organizer
of the First
Italian Meeting on Celestial Mechanics (University
of L'Aquila, Italy),
24-27 May 1993, whose aim is to create a common ground among
people
working on Solar System &
Stellar System Dynamics, Perturbation Theories,
Spaceflight Dynamics.
Lectures
on chaotic dynamics and Solar System studies to students of
the University of
L'Aquila.
Consultant
to private companies for the realization of multimedia products on Astronomy
Founder
member of IMPRONTE DIGITALI,
a society for multimedia productions.
1994
Telespazio
Space Geodesy Department: future scientific missions with
special emphasis on
the exploration of the Moon.
Antenna
pointing elements and sequence of events operational software development for the SAX mission.
1995
Telespazio
Technological Innovation &
Business Development Unit: science mission
opportunities.
LOCO
(Long-Period Comet Observer) mission proposal: towards a
Long-Period Comet
using small satellite and launcher technology.
Scientific
consultant to the Italian television company (RAI).
1996-1997
Italian
small satellite scientific mission
opportunities: follow-up on behalf of
Telespazio of the Phase-A studies of the missions GG-FEEP2 (test of the
equivalence principle in space) and SAGE
(space geodesy), selected by the
Italian Space Agency
Co-organizer
of the Second
Italian Meeting on Celestial Mechanics, L'Aquila
(Italy), 21-24 April 1997.
Co-author
of the book "Meccanica Celeste: il
Valzer dei Pianeti", published by
CUEN (Napoli); preface by Margherita Hack.
Invited
guest to the TV programs GEO&GEO
and MISTERI, produced by RAI.
1998-1999
Awarded
the "Giuseppe Colombo" senior
fellowship of the European Space Agency
at the Observatory
of Paris-Meudon (France).
Dynamics
of Neptune's Ring Arcs:
results are published on the international journal
Nature.
Development
of the H-plot method: a basic
targeting strategy for the direct exploration of
the Near Earth Asteroids
(NEAs).
Co-Editor
of the proceedings of the Second Italian Meeting on Celestial
Mechanics,
published as a special issue of the international journal Planetary and Space
Science.
Invited
lecturer on the Dynamics of the Mars
System at the "Alpbach Summer
School" organized by the Austrian Space Agency, 3-12 August 1999.
Co-proposer
of the AROS (Asteroid
Rendezvous by Orbiting Spacecraft) NEARER
(Near Earth
Asteroid Resonant Encounters) and MASTER
(Mars+Asteroid) missions to ESA in
response to a call for ideas for two flexi-missions.
Member
of the Science Team of the MASTER (Mars + ASTERoid) mission,
selected by ESA for
an assessment study following the 1999 ESA call for two Flexi-Missions.
2000-2001
Detached
at the Observatory of Paris on behalf of Telespazio for assessing
future ESA
science mission opportunities.
H-plot
further developments: compositional and dynamical aspects of NEA mission targets.
Member
of the Organizing Committee of CELMEC
III, an international meeting on
Celestial Mechanics, Villa Mondragone (Monteporzio Catone, Italy),
18-22 June
2001. www.mat.uniroma2.it/celmec
Organizer
of an Atelier
Scientifique de
l'Observatoire de Paris Meudon on the subject "Hommes et Methodes de la
Mechanique Celeste"
Author
of the entry " Resonances in the
Solar System " in the Encyclopaedia
of Astronomy and Astrophysics published by the Instiute of Physics
2002
Back
to
Telespazio headquarters in
Rome.
Member
of the Study Teams of the ISHTAR (Internal Structure
High-resolution Tomography
by Asteroid Rendezvous) and SIMONE (Smallsat
Intercept Missions to Objects Near
Earth) proposals, selected by ESA within the framework of the ITT "Near
Earth Object Space Mission Preparation".
Member
of the ESA Task Force on
Near-Earth Objects
Invited
Lecturer at the workshop "Ottimizzazione
di Traiettorie nel Volo
Spaziale", CNUCE-CNR (Pisa, Italy), 7-8 May 2002.
Founder
member of the Italian Celestial
Mechanics and Astrodynamics Society (S.I.M.C.A. - Societa' Italiana di
Meccanica Celeste e Astrodinamica). www.mat.uniroma2.it/simca
Scientific
consultant and script editor of the video RAI production "Mars: the new
frontier", which is selected by the Paris educational video
exhibition
committee.
Telespazio
Business Development Unit,
reporting activities with the European Space Agency: folow up of the
ESA boards and councils and participation to the various ESA programs (e.g. Artes, GMES, Science, Aurora)
Invited
Lecturer at the "Fifth Italian
Meeting on Planetary Science" (Lecce,
Italy, 15-19 September 2003) on the accessibility of the Near Earth
Asteroid
population
The
proceedings of the CELMEC III meeting are published as a special issue
of the
international journal Celestial
Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy.