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Type of site | Citizen science project |
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| 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] [4] 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. [5] [6] The project was created along with the ARKYD project through Kickstarter in 2014 and was funded with around 1.5 million dollars raised. [7]
In 2016, the Asteroid Zoo community exhausted the publicly available data, and the experiment was indefinitely paused. [8] [9] Asteroid Zoo produced several scientific publications during its run. [10]
