ADAS: Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey

The Asagio-DLR Asteroid Survey is the joint program among the Department of Astronomy and Astronomical Observatory of Padova and the DLR Berlin, dedicated to the search of asteroids. The Minor Planet Center has attributed to ADAS the survey code 209. The project is carried out since the end of December 2000 with S67/92cm telescope at Aiago - Cima Ekar equipped with the SCAM-1 camera of DLR in Time Delay Integration mode, in a strip from -5° to +15° around the celestial equator. The camera has a front illuminated Loral chip of 2048 x 2048 pixel of 15 µm each, covering a field of 49' x 49' with a resolution of 1,4" pixel_-1. This paper presents the main results obtained till March 15, 2002, when the telescope was closed for a complete overhaul. ADAS will resume presumably at the end of June 2002.