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Asteroid Zoo

Type of site	Citizen science project
Available in	English, Polish
Created by	Planetary Resources; C. Lewicki, M. Beasley, et al.[1]
URL	asteroidzoo.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Yes, but not mandatory
Launched	24 June 2014[2]
Current status	Paused

Asteroid Zoo was 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 were 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 crowdsourcing of astronomical data analysis.^[4][5] The project was created along with the ARKYD project through Kickstarter in 2014 and was funded with around 1.5 million dollars raised.^[6]

In 2016 the Asteroid Zoo community exhausted the publicly available data and the experiment was indefinitely paused.^[7][8] Asteroid Zoo produced several scientific publications during its run.^[9]

See also

• Astronomy portal

Zooniverse projects:

References

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