Public relation activities
Activities, animations, links, material, etc. for outreach (not complete):
- Press stories related to "A basin-free spherical shape as outcome of a giant impact on asteroid Hygiea" by Vernazza et al. (2019, Nature Astronomy 477V):
- ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet yet in the Solar System, eso1918 — Science Release, 28 Oct 2019
- Astronomers Just Found What May Be The Smallest Dwarf Planet in The Solar System, Science alert, 28 Oct 2019
- Asteroid Hygiea could be the smallest dwarf planet yet, Space Daily, 29 Oct 2019
- New Dwarf Planet in the Solar System Revealed by ESO Telescope, Technology.org, 29 Oct 2019
- Public lecture on Mineria Espacial en Asteroides, Oportunidades Para o Planeta Terra, Concello de Vigo, Conferencias en Vigozoo, Mar 21, 2019, R. Duffard
- Meteorite on board - reaching for the stars: German & English (links)
- Public lecture on Haumea ring discovery in Kościan, Poland, A. Marciniak
- BMW M850I Night Sky project with meteoritic material (SBNAF scientific advice; link)
- Out of this world: the BMW Individual M850i Night Sky (link)
- En un futuro podremos vivir en otros planetas, Interview with Pablo Santos Sanz in Diario Segre Lleida, Oct 25, 2018
- Planetas enanos. El extraño caso de Haumea, public talk by PSS, CIÉNCIA A L'IEI, Instituto de Estudios Ilerdenses, Diputación de Lérida, 24 Oct 2018
- Bayern 2 radio interview Unterwegs zum Asteroiden Ryugu (June 27, 2018; link)
- Asteroid outreach events (public talks, radio/TV interviews, family activities, etc.) in the context of the MIAPP workshop on Near-Earth Objects: Properties, Detection, Resources, Impacts and Defending Earth (14 May to 8 June 2018, Garching, Germany), combined with activities/shows in the ESO Supernova
- SBNAF involvement in remote observations of Ryugu via the Hayabusa2-ONC camera: Hayabusa2 operations room, Manga Vol 1 & What kind of asteroid is Ryugu? & Hayabusa2 has detected Ryugu
- JAXA Hayabusa2 paper spacecraft model: Japanese (link) & English (pdf; produced by L. Nittler)
- IAA/Granada (SBNAF team) becomes the official Hayabusa2/Ryugu Node for outreach in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world: Ryugu Space Art Contest (Apr 2018) & Imagina a Ryugu (link)
- Astronarium programme on the history of the AMU observatory in Poznan, TV science programme (Polish; link)
- Astronarium programme on Haumea, TV science programme (Polish; link; AM starting min 12:37)
- Astronarium programme on asteroids, TV science programme (Polish; link)
- Vota el premio Vanguardia de la Ciencia, Jose Luis Ortiz is nominated for the "PREMIO VANGUARDIA DE LA CIENCIA 2017" (link)
- Der nimmermüde Flugfels: Oumuamua liefert spannende Erkenntnisse über Asteroiden, Interview on SBNAF topics, Campus Spiegel 12/2017 (pdf)
- Haumea of the Outer Solar System (NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD from Oct 17, 2017; link)
- Multiple public talks, institute seminars, outreach activities, interviews, etc. on the "Haumea-Ring-Satellite system", following up on the Nature publication "Ortiz et al. 2017, Nature 550, 219-223: The size, shape, density and ring of the dwarf planet Haumea from a stellar occultation" in all SBNAF partner institutes
- project to "convert" observations of transneptunian objects with the Herschel Space Observatory into music:
- Record Release Trailer
- Music by the Polytheistic Ensemble
- Credits: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MPS/MPE/Observatoire de Paris/TNOs-are-Cool Team
- Statement from the CD booklet
- 321Science! (OSIRIS-REx mission tutoritals about asteroids, comets, etc.) (youtube)
- Visualisation of radar echo techniques for outreach activities (Grzegorz Dudziński, AMU):
- Images:
- Movies/animations:
- Radar spinning asteroid (youtube)
- Radar beta rolling asteroid (youtube)
- Rotation shape model of 159 Aemilia (mp4)
- Rotation shape model of binary asteroid 3169 Ostro (mp4, single-object code)
- Rotation shape model of binary asteroid 3169 Ostro (mp4, binary-object code)
- Explanations for the movies (txt)
- Visualisation of radar ranging & imaging technique (link, Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society)
- Visualisation of asteroid shape models from lightcurve inversion techniques (Przemysław Bartczak, AMU):
- Shape forming process in lightcurve inversion technique (youtube link)
- binary rotating shape model of 90 Antiope (youtube link)
- Eros shape model rotation (youtube link)
- rotating shape model of 809 Lundia (youtube link)
- rotating shape model of 4492 Debussy (youtube link)
- Rosetta flyby of asteroids Lutetia (youtube link)
- Radar echo information (youtube link)
- SBNAF on TV: N24 documentary on asteroids (with TM and PM; link)
- Printing (in-situ) asteroid models on 3-D printer: touch an asteroid! (several models available at MPE & IAA), including dedicated activities for blind people
- Gaia-GOSA (link to web tool): A Collaborative Service for Asteroid Observers (link to document)
