Asteroid Zoo
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Type of site | Citizen science project |
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| Available in | English, Polish |
| Created by | Planetary Resources; C. Lewicki, M. Beasley, et al.[1] |
| URL | asteroidzoo.org |
| Commercial | no |
| Registration | Yes, but not mandatory |
| Launched | 24 June 2014[2] |
| Current status | paused |
Asteroid Zoo is a citizen science project run by the Zooniverse and Planetary Resources, to use volunteer classifications to find unknown asteroids using old Catalina Sky Survey data.[3] The main goals of the project are to search for undiscovered asteroids in order to protect the planet by locating potentially harmful near-Earth Asteroids, locate targets for future asteroid mining, study the solar system, and study the potential uses and advantages of people looking through the images over computers.[4][5] It was created along with the ARKYD project through Kickstarter, funded with just over 1.5 million dollars.[6]
The AsteroidZoo community has exhausted the data that were available. With all the data examined they paused the experiment.[7] Asteroid Zoo produced several scientific publications.[8]
See also
Astronomy portalZooniverse projects:
References
- ^ "Asteroid Zoo: About". Asteroid Zoo. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "Welcome to Asteroid Zoo!". blog.asteroidzoo.org. asteroid zoo. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Wall, Mike. "Asteroid Zoo Asks Public to Find Dangerous Space Rocks". Space.com. Purch. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "item from NASA NEWS". talk.asteroidzoo.org. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "Asteroid Zoo: About".
- ^ "ARKYD: A space telescope for everyone". kickstarter. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Archived Zooniverse Project: Asteroid Zoo
- ^ All publications (2017)
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