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 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
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Zooniverse projects:
References
[edit]- ^ "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 (24 June 2014). "Asteroid Zoo Asks Public to Find Dangerous Space Rocks". Space.com. Purch. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "'Asteroid Zoo' Enlists Citizen Scientists for Online Hunt". NBC News. 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
- ^ "item from NASA NEWS". talk.asteroidzoo.org. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "Asteroid Zoo: About".
- ^ "Planetary Resources raises $1.5 million, commits to asteroid hunt". NBC News. 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
- ^ Archived Zooniverse Project: Asteroid Zoo
- ^ Zooniverse, The (2016-05-19). "Asteroid Zoo Paused". Zooniverse. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ^ All publications (2017)
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