“Catch a Meteor” Tracker

“Catch a Meteor” Tracker

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  • Hashtag= #catchameteor

    Background:

    Each year, millions of observable, unexpected meteors encounter the Earth's atmosphere and become a spectacle to the population below.  Many of the brighter "shooting stars" actually reach the surface of the Earth, becoming "meteorites", encapsulating secrets of our universe in their charred remains.

    The meteor that fell over Chelyabinsk in February of this year produced meteorites with a mass of over 1 kg. Most meteorites, however, are very small and often break into even smaller pieces before landing in remote areas, hiding in plain sight as the moisture of Earth's atmosphere degrades them.

    Challenge Description:

    Educate the interested public about the science of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), the likelihood of encounters with objects of various sizes, and the discoveries that are made by studying these rocky visitors to our planet.  

    Functional Specifications:

    Enhance education on the subject of NEOs through visualizations, games, social media, and the building of an online community. 

    Techniques to observe with more accuracy, precision, or even with different methods (like building a radio receiver to "hear" the meteor as it encounters the ionosphere), could be shared by this community and enable it to be self-sustainable.

    Look at meteor-tracking apps like those listed below and design something similar, but with an educational spin on it.

    Resources

    GMAT (http://gmat.gsfc.nasa.gov)

    Meteor Counter (http://meteorcounter.com/)

    Google Sky Map (http://www.google.com/mobile/skymap/)

    Star Walk (http://vitotechnology.com/star-walk.html)

    Meteor Shower Guide (http://www.meteorshowerguide.com/)



    Datasets

    • General Mission Analysis Tool

      http://gmat.gsfc.nasa.gov

      The General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) is a space trajectory optimization and mission analysis system developed by NASA and private industry in the spirit of the NASA Vision. GMAT contains new technology and is a testbed for future technology development. To satisfy NASA's mandate and maximize technology transfer, GMAT is an open source software system licensed under the NASA Open Source Agreement.

    • Meteor Counter

      http://meteorcounter.com/

      An app to easily capture meteor observations.

    • Google Sky Map

      http://www.google.com/mobile/skymap/

      An app to explore the skies on an Android device.

    • Star Walk

      http://vitotechnology.com/star-walk.html

      Star Walk is an award-winning Education app that allows users to easily locate and identify 20,000+ objects in the night sky.

    • Meteor Shower Guide

      http://www.meteorshowerguide.com

      Meteor Shower Guide is the complete pocket reference for annual meteor showers.

      This is the most comprehensive meteor shower app available.

    • NASA Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO)

      http://www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/index.html

      The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) is the NASA organization responsible for meteoroid environments pertaining to Spacecraft engineering and operations. The MEO leads NASA technical work on the meteoroid environment and coordinates the existing meteoroid expertise at NASA centers.

    • All-Sky Fireball Network

      http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/

      The MEO operates two all-sky camera systems in the southeastern United States for the detection of bright meteors and fireballs. The systems, designed by collaborators at the University of Western Ontario, are designed to measure meteor speeds and orbits. The goals of this project include determining the velocity distributions for bright meteors as a function of mass and measuring the meteor shower activity in this mass range. The MEO will establish two more camera systems in the near future.

    • American Meteor Society APIs

      https://www.dropbox.com/s/9lcro0edpfg8hfv/catchameteorspaceappschallenge.zip

      Here is a developer login you can use to access the APIs with the username: [email protected] and password: nasa_dev

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  • The following projects are solving this challenge:

    • MeteorCatchers

      A social network for astronomy fans, it let you report meteors avistment and other planetary bodies. Visit Project

    • SkyWatcher

      Objective ======== To provide a platform for people to record, share and track events visible in the night sky. Proposed Implementation ==================== This will be a web mobile application and will be implemented in an API which utilizes HTML5 and Javascript. The final product w... Visit Project

    • Meteoros

      A collection of multimedia content, introduction, events and discussion on meteors above us and around us in the ground. Includes a timeline, calendar, multimedia gallery and geographical map of meteor observations, findings and more to ignite the curiosity of students. Its development will be... Visit Project

    • NEOEdu

      We create an educational project of the Near-Earth Objects (NEOs)based on online site, with features the latest news, forums, multimedia (video, photos, audio), which can be accessed and understood by the public, by processing the 'real-time news and Data 'from various sources which proven and tr... Visit Project

    • CETEOR

      Ceteor is a web that educates people about how the meteor comes to earth and also can track the meteor and the user location with GPS. We also provide a simple design to enhance the experience with Ceteor's user Visit Project

    • moneo

      This project is windows phone app to bring you the latest news about near earth objects. This app is also able to visualize sky's constellation. Basically its' main purpose is for education and makes people more aware about NEO. Visit Project

    • Meteor Tracker

      The aim of our challenge is to create user-friendly Android app which locates a meteor crossing the sky. This app will contain a sky-chart that you can use to find the place on the sky where the meteor visually passed. Users should enter the trail of the meteor as they saw it on the sky, on thei... Visit Project

    • WishMaker

      WishMaker is an application to explore different meteor sightings' and help you 'make a wish' right on your mobile phone. # Business Objective * Promote meteorite information and, in turn, the interest on sighting meteorites. # Project Objectives * Use open source technologies * Develop... Visit Project

    • R.O.T.S.A.

      Creating an innovative concept app for mobile phones which will analyse data and estimated trajectories from observatories and allow the users to connect through event creations, to gather and witness the event and educate through the use of fun facts, with the make a wish function for an interes... Visit Project

    • Rastreador

      Este proyecto consiste en la construcción de un equipo que detecte y registre el ingreso de meteoros a la ionosfera, que comprende la instalación de una antena Yagi (antena de Televisión) para la transmisión y recepción que las ondas de radio, la cual trabajara en la banda entre 3 - 30 Mhz. Ademá... Visit Project

    • SignalAnalizer

      Each year, millions of observable, unexpected meteors encounter the Earth's atmosphere and become a spectacle to the population below. Many of the brighter "shooting stars" actually reach the surface of the Earth, becoming "meteorites", encapsulating secrets of our universe in their charred rema... Visit Project

    • Meteorienteer

      # Team Members # Emma Herranen - Mother of Taivaanvahti Observation Tracking System Anjuli Pullinen - Code Princess of the Unityverse Marko Kärkelä - Master of the Unityverse Anssi Eteläniemi - Qt Stargazer Ville Ranki - Qt Internet Plumber Saija Eteläniemi - Qt Shooting Star / Ex... Visit Project

    • Falling Star Finder

      Use your phone to REALLY find meteors! Stargazers in your region will go out wherever they are, set their phones down on the ground, and the phones will simultaneously snap pics of the same sky, looking to catch a falling star in 3D! [Watch our demo here!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHm66... Visit Project

    • Catch a Meteor

      The catch a meteor project is an Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nox.catch_a_meteor) application aiming to help amateurs as well as experienced meteors observers. The application gathers the dates, times and details about the upcoming meteor showers. Plenty of usefu... Visit Project

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