107. How Students Can Search for Asteroids ft. Dr. Trudi

107. How Students Can Search for Asteroids ft. Dr. Trudi

Show Summary:

In this episode of The STEM Space, Natasha chats with Dr. Trudi Hoogenboom, a planetary scientist and teacher. She shares her journey in science and the exciting work of her students in searching for unidentified asteroids. She shares how you can be involved in this citizen science project plus some advice for Space Club teams participating in the upcoming Space Colony Competition. This is an audio recording of Space Club Career Chats. You are invited to share the video with your students!

Dr. Trudi Hoogenboom is a Planetary Scientist and Planetary Science teacher with a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Leeds located in England. Dr. Trudi has worked as a research scientist at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, and the Arctic Planetary Science Institute. She co-authored the first topographic map of Io, a moon of Jupiter, and the first geological map of the massive asteroid 4 Vesta. Dr. Trudi joined Ad Astra/Astra Nova, a school founded by Elon Musk and Josh Dahn at SpaceX, teaching learners around the world to use astrophysical software to find main-belt asteroids, including AI detection of craters on the Moon, and glacier mapping on Mars. Her Astra Nova Asteroid Search Team students even located previously unidentified asteroids.

Links from the Show:

• Lunar and Planetary Institute

• The Arctic Planetary Science Institute

• Astra Nova School

• Pan-STARRS telescope (Hawaii)

• Citizen Science: International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC)

• Astrometrica

• All About Ganymede (NASA)

Space Club

• Video: STEM Career Chats: Dr Trudi (Planetary Researcher & Educator)

• Bring Space Club to Your School!

• Space Club Student Highlights: Space Club: Mission to Moon

• Space Colony Competition

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