Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
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High school students searching for asteroids with Pan-STARRS - hands-on educational activities with research-grade telescopes

Carolin Liefke , HdA/ARI

The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) performs an automated search for moving objects within the solar system. The International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) educational program allows high school students to work with recent Pan-STARRS images to make their own discoveries of unknown asteroids. In this talk, I will present results and implications from almost seven years of the project and its unique approach to bring young minds in touch with real scientific data and analysis methods.

ARI Institute Colloquium
13 Jul 2017, 11:15
ARI Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1

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