Saturday 26 April 2014

The CAST Astro Sciences Pro-Am citizen science project has been producing excellent results, to date, in the area of asteroid research.

Our citizen scientist team has been progressively growing as we continue to recruit interested parties, and they have been providing excellent data on MBA & Kuiper Belt Objects as well as NEA's and PHA's.
Our citizen scientists are based globally, so working together they are able to provide a comprehensive tracking of targets of interest for reliable data analysis. We match their data collection with what we are doing with our research grade telescopes for a comprehensive analysis and include our new research methodology to determine any characteristics of these objects that have not been measured to date. In some cases our asteroid research methods have produced valuable results into their composition and physical characteristics.