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Grant Winners at the Planetary Defense Conference
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2009/05/05 12:00 CDT
More from the Planetary Defense Conference: Shoemaker Grant Winners
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2009/04/27 06:54 CDT
More from the Planetary Defense Conference: Shoemaker Grant Winners
Updates on the 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant Recipients
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2009/04/27 12:00 CDT
Our 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant winners have been extremely busy over the past two years. Take for example Quanzhi Ye of Guangzhou, China: He was only 18 when he received the award but already the principal investigator of the sky survey at the Lulin Observatory in Taiwan.
Shoemaker Grant Recipient Co-Discovers Comet Lulin
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2009/02/24 11:00 CST
Updates on the 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant Recipients
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2008/06/27 12:00 CDT
Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2007/03/01 11:00 CST
Update as of March 4, 2007 Thanks to The Planetary Society Shoemaker Grant, the 1.06-meter KLENOT telescope optics was completed at the Klet Observatory. Regular observations of the KLENOT project started in March 2002 under the new IAU/MPC code 246, so we can now present results covering 5 years of this work.
Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2006/07/18 12:00 CDT
Update as of July 13, 2006 Using the Shoemaker NEO Grant funds, Minor Planet Research has purchased a 1.7-terabyte data server for our Asteroid Discovery Station (ADS) education outreach program Through the generosity of Dr. Philip Christensen, this server is housed at the Mars Space Flight Facility (MSFF) at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2005/08/17 12:00 CDT
Update as of July 28, 2005 Following last year's Potentially Hazardous Asteroid and a few other non-main-belt discoveries, I looked into what improvements I could make to more efficiently image the sky. The major advance involved the design of a 3-lens corrector comprising 2 stock lenses and a custom lens I made myself.
Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2004/04/16 12:00 CDT
Update as of March 24, 2004 2003 was a good year with 50,779 asteroid astrometric observations submitted, including known NEOs and the discovery of a new Aten-class object, 2003 UY12. Based upon the volume of astrometric observations submitted, observatory code 683 was the world's eighth most productive asteroid astrometry station.
Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2001/03/20 11:00 CST
Update as of March 20, 2001 I just wanted to express my appreciation again to The Planetary Society for the Shoemaker Grant. Apogee Instruments delivered the AP6Ep purchased with the grant on 9 March 2001. Critical mass on all of the other components associated with implementing the proposal was reached last week.
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