Description :

The 'Hunting for Asteroids' activity is a self-contained Keystage 2, 3 and 4 workshop where students can look for asteroids 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 ITC, Physics and Maths into a fun hour of discovery.

Age Range : 7 - 16 years

Workshop Time : 1 hour

Resources

For each project you will need to download a set of teacher notes, an introductory PowerPoint presentation, a set of student notes, and the image data to be analysed using LTImage.

Teacher Notes : MS Word Format or PDF Format

Introductory Presentation : MS PowerPoint

Student Notes:

Age 7-11 : MS Word Format or PDF Format
Age 11-16 : MS Word Format or PDF Format
More Able Tasks : MS Word Format or PDF Format

Data Files :

The first set of image files contain simulated asteroids, and are for training purposes.