Asteroid Zoo Talk

Big, bright and obvious asteroids

  • grums by grums

    Why not allow emphasis on very obvious, likely asteroid candidates by letting people score them out of 10 for example. I have just found one (image AAZ0001ac8 top right) previously found 6 months ago (at least) which I would thought have been easily confirmed if looked at. This is not the first I have seen like this. It seems very inefficient to not grade the quality of the likelyhood in some way so as to enable best use of resources to maximise return and, in addition, give some feedback to searchers (which is somewhere between poor and non-existent). Maybe my impression is wrong, but then I don't know what the criteria are for proceeding to verification.