Asteroid Zoo
Type of site
Citizen science project
Available inEnglish, Polish
Created byPlanetary Resources; C. Lewicki, M. Beasley, et al.[1]
URLasteroidzoo.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationYes, but not mandatory
Launched24 June 2014[2]
Current statusPaused

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] 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.[4][5] The project was created along with the ARKYD project through Kickstarter in 2014 and was funded with around 1.5 million dollars raised.[6]

In 2016 the Asteroid Zoo community exhausted the publicly available data and the experiment was indefinitely paused.[7][8] Asteroid Zoo produced several scientific publications during its run.[9]

See also

Zooniverse projects:

References

  1. ↑ "Asteroid Zoo: About". Asteroid Zoo. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Welcome to Asteroid Zoo!". blog.asteroidzoo.org. asteroid zoo. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Wall, Mike (24 June 2014). "Asteroid Zoo Asks Public to Find Dangerous Space Rocks". Space.com. Purch. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "item from NASA NEWS". talk.asteroidzoo.org. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Asteroid Zoo: About".
  6. ↑ "ARKYD: A space telescope for everyone". kickstarter. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  7. ↑ Archived Zooniverse Project: Asteroid Zoo
  8. ↑ Zooniverse, The (2016-05-19). "Asteroid Zoo Paused". Zooniverse. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  9. ↑ All publications (2017)


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