Asteroid 2024 PT5 will become a temporary satellite of Earth for 2 months. Credit: NASA. 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 11 metres (36 ft) in diameter discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) at the Sutherland Observatory in...
We’re excited to announce the first slot for an Asteroid Search Campaign for the Erasmus+ project Students As PlaNetary Defenders (StAnD)! This campaign runs from 25 October to 19 November 2024, in collaboration with the International Astronomical Search...
During StAnD, your students will have a chance to hunt for micrometeorites. These tiny particles, thought to have come from the oldest matter there is, are the remnants of minerals from even before the planets in our Solar System formed. They may even contain dust...
The StAnD project is led by the team from Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and they also lead the way in spreading the word about this initiative. On 24 July they held the first Multiplier Event to show the project to the public. Nearly 100 people...
The first StAnD Summer School, held in Marathon, Greece, was not just a week of professional development, it was also an opportunity for participating teachers from Germany, Greece, Italy and Portugal to meet each other and get to grips with this amazing project to...
