Neorockers and Dart….Focus on DART – OPTiK
What has the University of Edinburgh being doing for DART? Many things, but let’s focus on DART – OPTiK. The DART – OPTiK team is a collaboration of researchers from the University of Edinburgh, STFC UKRI, Technical University of Kenya and the Turkana Basin Institute. Our Neorocker Colin Snodgrass is part of this team. With support from the Europlanet Coordination of Ground-based
Neorockers and Dart….Focus on University of Padova
What has the University of Padova being doing for DART? Professor Monica Lazzarin from the Department of Physics and Astronomy is DART Team Investigation member and she participates in the international campaign of ground based observations of Didymos and Dimorphos before and after the impact. Other Neorockers in her team are also involved. Fiorangela La Forgia is a member of the
Neorockers and Dart….Focus on CAS
What has Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) being doing for DART? Neorocker Petr Pravec is the "Data Analysis Coordinator". He was in charge of coordinating photometric observations taken during 2015 to 2021, analysis of the obtained light curve data, and doing their light curve decompositions that were input data to the Dimorphos orbit modelling. He does the
Neorockers and Dart….Focus on LICIACUBE
What have Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica INAF and Italian Space Agency ASI being doing for DART? Many things, but let’s focus on LICIACube (Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids). LICIACube is a space mission of ASI, and part of the NASA DART. LICIACube was hosted as secondary spacecraft during all DART’s interplanetary cruise, being then released by its dispenser before the
Neorockers and Dart….Focus on IAC
What has Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) being doing for DART? Neorocker Julia de Leon, planetary scientist at the IAC, is coordinating (together with Dr. Simone Ieva, from INAF) the Characterisation part of the Observations Working Group. Right now, she is not at her office in the Canary Islands, but in Chile, as she will be observing the DART impact
ESA NEO July Newsletter
The ESA S2P NEO Coordination Centre has released its July 2022 Newsletter. Access it here.
Asteroid Day with Czech Academy of Sciences
On the occasion of Asteroid Day 2022, scientists from the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences organised a meeting with the general public. After a short presentation entitled “Near-Earth asteroids - danger and opportunity”, scientists answered questions from the audience and commented on various topics requested by the guests. Click here to find out more about the partner's role in
ASTEROID DAY 2022 with NEOROCKS!
Happy Asteroid Day to all of you! For those mini-neorockers out there, find out all you want to know about asteroids with our Asteroid Day Special mini-newsletter “Ask the Neorockers”! And for the slightly less mini-neorockers, take a trip to Stomboli with Ettore Perozzi, from the Italian Space Agency… Our French partner OCA, will be busy on Saturday night, opening their doors to
NEOROCKS on Futuro24
Futuro24, RAI New's scientific section, leads us into Asteroid Day with a session on "Defending the Earth from Asteroids"
ESA NEO June Newsletter
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released the June newsletter. Access it here for the most relevant data and events on asteroids and comets approaching the orbit of the Earth.