All India Asteroid Search Campaign 2011

All India Asteroid Search Campaign 2011

SPACE and IASC are back with another season of Asteroid Hunting.  

The “All India Asteroid Search Campaign 2011” will be conducted in India in two separate phases:

Phase I          May 16^th – June 30^th

Phase II         July 4^st – Aug 19^th

Last date for application/nomination:                           Saturday, 30^th April, 2011

Announcement of selected schools:                             Wednesday, 2^st May, 2011

Under the aegis of the All India Asteroid Search Campaign conducted by SPACE Foundation in 2010, two Delhi school students made history and bought laurels to the entire nation by discovering two asteroids. With an overwhelming participation of 45 schools across 5 states in India in 2010, the participants in this project succeeded in discovering 4 main belt Asteroids, 1 Virtual Impactor Observation, 25 Near Earth confirmations and 132 Near Earth Confirmation.

After the unprecedented success of All India Asteroid Search Campaign (AIASC) last year, SPACE Foundation in association with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC), an educational outreach program which includes Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley and Global Hands-on-Universe Association (USA) is back with another season of excitement with AIASC 2011.

AIASC 2011 brings forth an exciting opportunity for school children and individuals to be involved in real time experimentation and to be at the forefront of research at the international level by finding an Asteroid in exclusive Astronomical sky data to be provided to them. This highly prestigious program will enable students to work in parallel with professional astronomers, to work with real astronomy data taken through observatories and expose them to the actual research being done in the field of astronomy. An extensive specialized workshop held by SPACE foundation will provide training preceding this program. Note that attending this paid workshop will be mandatory.

To join in this prestigious program, please contact info@space-india.org or

09212669934 and request a registration form. Schools - please contact 09212669920 for registration or queries. Note, selections will be on a 1st cum 1st served basis.

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