{"id":124157,"date":"2020-08-04T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T22:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=124157"},"modified":"2020-08-10T09:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:08:56","slug":"students-track-asteroid-2020-oo1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/04\/students-track-asteroid-2020-oo1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawai\u02bbi students track asteroid as it passes near Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_123399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123399\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/system-astronomy-asteroid-gif.gif\" alt=\"asteroid render\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123399\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asteroid 2020 <abbr>OO1<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On July 20, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/panstarrs.ifa.hawaii.edu\/pswww\/\">Pan-<abbr title=\"Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System\">STARRS<\/abbr>1<\/a> telescope atop Haleakal\u0101 discovered an asteroid 65 feet in diameter that appeared likely to pass close to Earth. Asteroid 2020 <abbr>OO1<\/abbr> safely flew by Earth a week later. Some of the first follow-up images of the approaching asteroid were taken by <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> high school students participating in the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Institute for Astronomy (<abbr>IfA<\/abbr>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/histar\/\"><abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr> program<\/a> using telescopes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lco.global\/\">Las Cumbres Observatory<\/a> (<abbr>LCO<\/abbr>) global telescope network.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/24\/uh-astronomy-asteroid-discovery\/\">Asteroid discovered by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> telescope will make close pass Monday<\/a>, July 24, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_124351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124351\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifa-astronomy-teagarden-guarin.jpg\" alt=\"Two boys with awards\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifa-astronomy-teagarden-guarin.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifa-astronomy-teagarden-guarin-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifa-astronomy-teagarden-guarin-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, <abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr> students Jed Teagarden and Esken Guarin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_124773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124773\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifa-astronomy-florez.jpg\" alt=\"David Florez\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifa-astronomy-florez.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifa-astronomy-florez-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifa-astronomy-florez-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Florez<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Pan-<abbr>STARRS<\/abbr> is the world leader in finding Near-Earth Objects (<abbr>NEOs<\/abbr>). The discoveries from the Maui-based project are used by local high school students to direct follow-up observations with <abbr>LCO<\/abbr>. <abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr> students Esken Guarin and Jed Teagarden obtained data from the South Africa node of the <abbr>LCOGT<\/abbr> 1.0 meter network on the night 2020 <abbr>OO1<\/abbr> was discovered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.D. Armstrong<\/strong>, <abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr> director and <abbr>IfA<\/abbr> Maui outreach astronomer, also mentors Kihei Charter High School student David Florez who verified images with <abbr>LCO<\/abbr>\u2019s Faulkes Telescope North on Haleakal\u0101. Those observations were reported to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minorplanetcenter.net\/iau\/mpc.html\">Minor Planet Center<\/a> (<abbr>MPC<\/abbr>), and the students received credit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s great to see our high school students being part of cutting edge science, using data from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s observatories and around the world. These are our future <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> superstars,&rdquo; said Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Guarin and Teagarden received high honors at the 2020 Maui County Science and Engineering Fair for their astronomy research. Guarin has observed exoplanets and authored several <abbr>MPC<\/abbr> circulars. Teagarden has studied asteroids and presented a project on sun-orbiting asteroid Gault.<\/p>\n<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, observatories around the world temporarily ceased operations, but locating asteroids through remotely operating telescopes continued. <abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr> students have been able to use robotic <abbr>LCO<\/abbr> telescopes for follow-up observations.<\/p>\n<p>The search for <abbr>NEO<\/abbr>s is funded by <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/planetarydefense\/overview\">Planetary Defense Coordination Office<\/a> through its <abbr>NEO<\/abbr> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/planetarydefense\/neoo\">Observations Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By <span aria-label=\"Moanikeala\">Moanike&#699;ala<\/span> Nabarro<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"Institute for Astronomy\">IfA<\/abbr> <abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr> students help astronomers track approaching asteroid using telescopes on Maui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,656,35,9],"class_list":["post-124157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-astronomy","tag-haleakala","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124157"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124774,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124157\/revisions\/124774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}