Image sets from July 5, 6, 7, & 8 are available in the school folders.

Image Sets Available

Image sets from July 5, 6, 7, & 8 are available in the school folders.  Each school has at least one image set to analyze.  Check your folder!!

It is important that your students download and analyze their image sets within 48 hours of the time that the sets are placed into the school folders.  Once the sets are analyzed and the MPC reports are prepared, send the reports to the new IASC email address atiascsearch@hsutx.eduiascsearch@hsutx.edu>.

Need Help?

If you are having problems loading or using the software Asrometrica, do not hesitate to contact Mila mitra at mila.mitra@gmail.com or at aiasc2010@space-india.org 
or Ginger Anderson at gingera@bwoodtx.comgingera@bwoodtx.com> or Denise Rothrock at drothrock@madisonvillecisd.orgdrothrock@madisonvillecisd.org>.  Ginger and Denise are two long-time high school teachers from Texas, who have participated in IASC search campaigns for a number of years.  They are experts in how to use Astrometrica and how to instruct students to find and measure asteroids.

Student Observations

Congratulations!!  The following students and schools made NEO observations.  An NEO observation is the third or fourth measurement of a near-Earth object (NEO).  This observation helps refine the orbit and better assess the impact hazard with Earth.

Object  Students        School  Location        Date
2010 KA8        Jawale, Nisang, & Darade        Bhaskaracharya Astro Research Centre, Ahmednagar        India   07/05/10
2010 NB Adey, Fletcher, McNeely, & Sobecki      IASC QuarkNet   United States   07/05/10
2010 MF1        A. Raina        SPACE Club Beta, Delhi  India   07/06/10
2010 MW1        Anandhi, Subramanian, & Srivatsan       Shri Natesan Vidyasala Secondary School India   07/06/10

The following student and school made an NEO confirmation.  An NEO confirmation is the second measurement of a newly-diiscovered near-Earth object.  This observation confirms the existence of the NEO and helps to refine the orbit:

Object  Students        School  Location        Date
2010 NB A. Singh        Ryan International School, Rohini       India   07/02/10



The following student and school made a virtual impactor observation (VIO).  When an NEO is first discovered the Minor Planet Center assesses the risk of impact with Earth.  When that risk is high enough, the NEO is identified as a potentially hazarous asteroid (PHA) by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  A VIO is that observation that provides sufficient data for the MPC to further evaluate the impact risk and remove the NEO from the PHA list.  VIOs are actually rarer than Main Belt aasteoid discoveries:



Object  Students        School  Location        Date
2010 MF1        Kopycinska, Lewandowski, Przygucki, Urbanski, Woznicki, Urbanski        Gimnazjum Miejskie im. M. Kopernika     Poland  06/27/10



Finally, the following are the Main Belt asteroid discoveries made since the start of the All-India Asteroid Search Campaign in May:



Object  Students        School  Location        Date
2010 LM109      A. McNeely & M. McNeely QuarkNet        United States   06/13/10
2010 MN2        Kopycinska, Lewandowski, Przygucki, Urbanski, Woznicki, & Urbanski      Gimnazjum Miejskie im. M. Kopernika     Poland  06/18/10
2010 MR4        Nedelchev, Iordanov, & Radeva   Varna High School of Natural Sciences   Bulgaria        06/18/10



Your studens will also make NEO observations, NEO confirmations, VIOs, and Main Belt asteroid discoveries...but to do so they must download and analyze their image sets.  Thus far only 5 of the 28 schools in the current All-India Asteroid Search Campaign have participated.  Check your folders, and in the meantime...


Happy Hunting!!