Tag Archives: Asteroids

Christmas comes early for Welsh school children as their names feature in study of a mysterious hybrid comet/asteroid!

Posted on 16/12/2021 by Sophie Bartlett

By Helen Usher Children from four Welsh primary schools who are helping astronomers study a strange solar system object are now very excited to see their observations featured in a research paper recently published in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal. They …

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Pallas’ Parallax!

Posted on 19/11/2021 by Sophie Bartlett

Parallax is the phenomenon whereby the position of an object appears to change when observed from different locations. The easiest way to see parallax in action is to stretch out your arm in front of you and hold up your …

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German high school students catch first sight of comet 46P/Wirtanen

Posted on 03/10/2018 by Matthew Allen

By Paul Breitenstein (science teacher at Pascal-Gymnasium, Münster, Germany) After an unsuccessful three-week search with the 1m LCO telescopes by students at Pascal-Gymnasium, Münster, comet 46P finally fell into our net with the help of the 2m FTS. And no wonder …

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German student Levin Belli discovers an asteroid with FTN

Posted on 03/10/2018 by Matthew Allen

A German school student, Levin Belli, has discovered an asteroid and won 1st place in Earth and Space Sciences at the regional competition of “Schüler experimentieren”. 2018AM4 is an asteroid orbiting the Sun that had gone unnoticed until it was discovered …

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Discovery of fast rotating asteroid

Posted on 02/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

Paulet High school, Lord Wilson High School, UK Following an observing alert posted on April 10, four groups contributed observations of the newly-discovered near-Earth asteroid 2008 GP3 using Faulkes South. The object was imaged both on April 11 and on …

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169P/NEAT: A Comet or an Asteroid?

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

Armagh Observatory Two students from Our Lady and St. Patrick’s College, Knock, and Bangor Grammar School in Northern Ireland worked with astronomers at the Armagh Observatory in January this year, observing comets and unusual asteroids. Read the report they wrote …

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Finding the Asteroid 2007 UR2 – Observations with Faulkes Telescope North

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

Armagh Observatory In January this year, 2 students from Victoria College, Belfast, worked with astronomers at the Armagh Observatory, and found a very exciting object! Read their report of their observations here… “The asteroid 2007 UR2 hadn’t been observed in …

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Detecting The Dwarfs

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

College Le Monteil ASAM On Tuesday May 18th, pupils at College Le Monteil in France, together with their teacher Andre Debackere, used FTS to image two of the dwarf planets in our Solar System – Pluto and Ceres. The images …

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Holly Hall School target asteroid Scheila for BBC Stargazing Live Event

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

As part of the BBC’s Stargazing Live event, FT users have been observing a list of interesting targets – here, Holly Hall School have taken a number of images of the asteroid Scheila. This animation shows the path of the …

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