There’s an opportunity for you, yes you, to do your part in asteroid research, and potentially planetary defense. The Daily Minor Planet crowdsourcing project (www.zooniverse.org/projects/fulsdavid/the-daily-minor-planet) allows Net users to scour telescope images for potential moving objects, i. e., asteroids. Now, the project is piling on:
To this point, the project used images from the Catalina Sky Survey’s Mount Lemmon telescope. No slouch, but one telescope is still one telescope. Until now- the Bart Bok Telescope is being added to the data stream. Clearly no slouch, the Bok Telescope has a 2.3 meter aperture.
Happy hunting!