Astronomy: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] |
| Website | asteroidzoo.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Yes, but not mandatory |
| Launched | 24 June 2014[2] |
| Current status | Paused |
Asteroid Zoo was 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][4] The main goals of the project were 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 crowdsourcing of astronomical data analysis.[5][6] The project was created along with the ARKYD project through Kickstarter in 2014 and was funded with around 1.5 million dollars raised.[7]
In 2016, the Asteroid Zoo community exhausted the publicly available data, and the experiment was indefinitely paused.[8][9] Asteroid Zoo produced several scientific publications during its run.[10]
See also
Zooniverse projects:
- The Daily Minor Planet
- Backyard Worlds
- Disk Detective
- Galaxy Zoo
- Old Weather
- Planet Hunters
- SETILive
- The Milky Way Project
References
- ↑ "Asteroid Zoo: About". http://www.asteroidzoo.org/#/about. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ "Welcome to Asteroid Zoo!". asteroid zoo. http://blog.asteroidzoo.org/2014/06/24/welcome-to-asteroid-zoo/. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ Wall, Mike (24 June 2014). "Asteroid Zoo Asks Public to Find Dangerous Space Rocks". Purch. http://www.space.com/26349-asteroid-zoo-zooniverse-planetary-resources.html. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ "'Asteroid Zoo' Enlists Citizen Scientists for Online Hunt" (in en). 2014-06-25. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/asteroid-zoo-enlists-citizen-scientists-online-hunt-n140151.
- ↑ "item from NASA NEWS". http://talk.asteroidzoo.org/#/boards/BAZ0000001/discussions/DAZ00007td. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ "Asteroid Zoo: About". http://www.asteroidzoo.org/#/about.
- ↑ "Planetary Resources raises $1.5 million, commits to asteroid hunt" (in en). 2013-07-01. https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/planetary-resources-raises-1-5-million-commits-asteroid-hunt-6c10489610.
- ↑ Archived Zooniverse Project: Asteroid Zoo
- ↑ Zooniverse, The (2016-05-19). "Asteroid Zoo Paused" (in en). https://blog.zooniverse.org/2016/05/19/asteroid-zoo-paused/.
- ↑ All publications (2017)
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