Target Asteroids!

[benjii]

I found this while browsing the interwebs this morning...

"Target Asteroids! is an opportunity for amateur astronomers to participate in a long-term citizen science project that will contribute to basic scientific understanding of near-Earth objects (NEOs)."

The OSIRIS-REx Mission - An Asteroid Sample Return Mission - Target Asteroids

It's in partnership with NASA, I would imagine due to their dwindling budget, to help them track NEOs. The only requirements are an 8" guided scope, a colour camera and some basic AP skills. I think it's a nice opportunity to track, what many of us may not have realised to be, asteroids.

Unforunately, that rules me out with my 12" dob.