Asteroid Zoo Explained

Asteroid Zoo
Url:	asteroidzoo.org
Commercial:	No
Type:	Citizen science project
Language:	English, Polish
Registration:	Yes, but not mandatory
Author:	Planetary Resources C. Lewicki, M. Beasley, et al.^[1]
Launch Date:	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] 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:

Notes and References

1. Web site: Asteroid Zoo: About. Asteroid Zoo. 6 February 2015.
2. Web site: Welcome to Asteroid Zoo!. blog.asteroidzoo.org. asteroid zoo. 6 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20140912201340/http://blog.asteroidzoo.org/2014/06/24/welcome-to-asteroid-zoo/. 12 September 2014. dead.
3. Web site: Wall. Mike. Asteroid Zoo Asks Public to Find Dangerous Space Rocks. Space.com. 24 June 2014. Purch. 6 February 2015.
4. Web site: item from NASA NEWS. talk.asteroidzoo.org. 6 February 2015.
5. Web site: Asteroid Zoo: About.
6. Web site: ARKYD: A space telescope for everyone. kickstarter. 6 February 2015.
7. https://www.asteroidzoo.org/ Archived Zooniverse Project: Asteroid Zoo
8. Web site: Zooniverse . The . 2016-05-19 . Asteroid Zoo Paused . 2023-11-17 . Zooniverse . en.
9. https://www.zooniverse.org/about/publications All publications