2014 programme

Target Asteroids! Engaging citizen scientists to be part of OSIRIS-REx

Peter Lake

VSS, AAVSO, iTelescope.net,

Poster paper on the early results of the Target Asteroids observation program being run by the University of Arizona, characterising asteroids that may be the subject of future sample return missions. Amateur Astronomers participate in the study, submitting astrometry and photometry to contirbute to a better understanding of phase function, absolute magnitude, albedo, taxonomy, color, rotation period and size.