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GOALS WE PROPOSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTROKIT.ORG, AN ONLINE PRESENCE THAT PROVIDES SERVICES FOR BROWSING ASTEROID DATA AND TOOLS THAT SUPPORT ANALYSIS OF ASTEROID ASTROMETRY, PHOTOMETRY, AND SPECTROSCOPY. ASTROKIT WILL BE A SET OF FREE SOFTWARE TOOLS THAT EMPOWER CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO EXPLORE ASTEROIDS AND USE SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND THEM. THE ASTROMETRY TOOLKIT WILL ALLOW USERS TO UPLOAD IMAGES, AUTOMATICALLY LOCATE THEIR POSITION IN THE SKY, AND MARK KNOWN CELESTIAL OBJECTS IN IMAGES WITH CIRCLES AND LABELS. IT WILL IDENTIFY MOVING OBJECTS BY OVERLAYING SEQUENTIAL IMAGES, A TECHNIQUE KNOWN AS STACKING AND BLINKING. THE TOOLKIT WILL INCLUDE BATCH-UPLOAD AND API SUPPORT FOR LARGE GROUPS OF IMAGES. THE PHOTOMETRY TOOLKIT WILL ACCEPT INPUT FROM THE ASTROMETRY PROCESS AND ESTIMATE THE MAGNITUDE OF OBJECTS IN SKY IMAGERY USING REFERENCE STARS FROM STANDARD CATALOGS. IT WILL SUPPORT BATCH-UPLOAD AND AN API FOR LARGE GROUPS OF IMAGES. THE LIGHT CURVE TOOLKIT WILL ACCEPT PHOTOMETRIC VALUES AND DISPLAY INTERACTIVE LIGHT CURVES BASED ON THIS DATA. USERS WILL BE ABLE TO ADJUST THE INPUTS AND TUNE THEIR DERIVED LIGHT CURVES IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE SPIN PERIOD OF AN ASTEROID. THE SITE WILL MAKE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD THE ASTROMETRIC, PHOTOMETRIC, AND LIGHT CURVE DATA, AS WELL AS A GRAPH OF OUTPUT. ASTROKIT WILL PROVIDE A VISUAL INTERFACE FOR PAST RESULTS THAT HAVE BEEN MARKED PUBLIC BY USERS, ALONGSIDE OFFICIAL DATA FROM NASA JPL AND THE MINOR PLANET CENTER WITH A FOCUS ON NEAR EARTH OBJECTS (NEOS) AND POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS (PHAS). USERS WILL BE ABLE TO SEARCH AND SELECT SPECIFIC ASTEROIDS FOR REFERENCE, AS WELL AS TEXT-BASED SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY TO QUICKLY PULL INFORMATION FROM A DATABASE OF NEARLY 700,000 ASTEROIDS.
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NANATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Code: 8000
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