Triangulating the path of the meteoroid that produced the giant fireball over Russia last Friday: How Amateur Videos Will Help Astronomers Reconstruct Meteorite’s Life History: Astronomers can retrace space rocks’ paths to find their birthplace. – Popular Science.
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This is the best video I’ve seen so far of asteroid 2012 DA14 as it passed by earth last Friday: Here’s A Video Of Last Week’s Asteroid Fly-By – Popular Science
Asteroid 2012 DA 14 from Daniel López on Vimeo.
Alan Stern, former head of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and former head of NASA space science division, is also involved in several commercial ventures, including Uwingu, which aims to raise money for space science projects via profit making products and services. The first Uwingu service invites the public to suggest names for the many planets that are being found orbiting other stars. The names selected will not be official or binding but the activity can still be fun for the public. Stern talks with New Scientist about Uwingu and exoplanet naming: We need to rethink how we name exoplanets – New Scientist.
Here’s a critique of the Zooniverse citizen science techniques and the Planet Four project in particular: Citizen science – Echus Overlook.
And here is a rebuttal: Why the Zooniverse is easy to use. – Zooniverse
The South by Southwest (SXSW 2013) festival (March 8-17, Austin Texas) combines “original music, independent films, and emerging technologies”. This year there will be a
panel on “Crowd-sourcing the Space Frontier” will include Anousheh Ansari, who visited the International Space Station in 2006 and was name sponsor for the Ansari X-Prize in 2001, and Citizens in Space project manager and citizen-astronaut candidate Edward Wright.
More at Citizen Astronauts, Space Entrepreneurs to Speak at SxSW
The science team of the citizen science project Galaxy Zoo answered questions from viewers this week on their Google+ Hangout: Live Chat: Galactic Rings, Secular Evolution and The Good Old Days – Galaxy Zoo