We are pleased to announce that three
students :Jakub
Jasiewicz Kamil Pisany and Szymon Michałowski from Zespol
Szkol Miejskich Nr 3 in Jaslo discovered asteroid under the guidance of a teacher of
geography Jadwiga
Moskal, together
with Kamila Ulatowska,
Damian Le¶kiewicz
and Bartosz
Markowicz under the direction of Sebastian Soberskiego
Planetarium and Astronomical
Observatory in Grudziadz.
It waas given the provisional designation 2013 EY77.
This
discovery is one of the
8 new discoveries
done by polish students during
program Pan-STARRS
organized
by an international institution
"Hands-On
Universe".
In this program, currently
participates 12 schools combined
into 6 teams from Poland.School
from Jaslo is collaboratinh
with the Planetarium
and Observatory
Grudziadz
The
current campaign uses
observations made
PanStarrs telescope
in Hawaii, the
best dedicated
instrument for this type of observation
in the world, equipped with a special CCD
camera with a resolution of
1.4 billion pixels. Photos taken by
the telescope
are passed school teams,
led by teachers.
Each kit is developed by
our teams of the two schools.
Students communicate through
the Internet. All teachers
participating in the campaign are
trained in the form of
conferences and discussions
via Skype
Program
Hands-On
Universe in Poland
is managed by Lech
Mankiewicz from
Center for Theoretical
Physics and Krzysztof
Chyży from Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University.
School from Jaslo is
the only school representing
the Subcarpathian Province.
Students from Jaslo have
already had similar success - in
September they discovered
asteroid 2012 SC21.
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One of the photos, which were discovered a new asteroid. Each set is consisted of four high-quality photos. The task of the students is to check whether the objects on consecutive shots do not change position, checking if they are not already known asteroids and report such situations. Discovered asteroid is located in the upper left corner of the photo. |
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Composition of
original images, with asteroid
discovery. Asteroid 2013 EY77 - here has the working designation: ZSM0008 |