Planetary Defense
Planetary Resources just announced a collaboration with Zooniverse that will empower citizen scientists to aid in the search for potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and support planetary defense. If the ARKYD Kickstarter reaches US$1.7 million by Sunday, they will partner with Zooniverse to create Asteroid Zoo, a program to allow students, citizen scientists and space enthusiasts to find potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) at home and help train computers to better find them in the future.
Modeled after Zooniverse’s popular Galaxy Zoo and other astronomy projects, Asteroid Zoo will allow the public to search through terabytes of data collected by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) for undiscovered asteroids in a fun, game-like process from their personal computers.
There’s more info over at the Planetary Resources Google Hangout.
Filed under: Asteroids & NEOs
