Hunting for Asteroids

The 'Hunting for Asteroids' activity is a self-contained Keystage 2, 3 and 4 workshop where students learn about what asteroids are and can then look for asteroids themselves within images taken by the Liverpool Telescope.

Using the same techniques employed by professional astronomers, students will quickly learn how to detect real asteroids in real observations, and learn how to calculate the speed of those asteroids. The workshop combines ICT, Physics and Maths into a fun hour of discovery.