Event Details
International Asteroids Search Campaign organized by International Astronomical Search Collaboration jointly with NASA.
31 August 2023
12:00 AM
Room No. AB 402
AB Building, DIU Smart City Campus
Contact Person
Md. Saiful Islam, Covener, DIU CPC
Contact: 01810 000 000
International Asteroids Search Campaign organized by International Astronomical Search Collaboration jointly with NASA. . A total of 11 Citizen Scientists from Software Engineering Club(SEC), DIUparticipated in the campaign held from 13th July to 7th August. Around five hundred teams worldwide were able to detect the movements of a total of 330 stars. Among them, only 79 MPC (Manual Planet Center) reports were selected in the final list at the end of the qualifying round.
Out of 89 identifications, participating for the first time, 3 identifications from Team Howitzer and 1 identification from Team StarPlex were selected as finalists.