Asteroid Zoo

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Asteroid Zoo

Type of site	Citizen science project
Available in	English, Polish
Created by	Planetary Resources; , , 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 portal

Zooniverse projects:

References[]

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