{"id":122041,"date":"2021-07-29T20:35:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=122041"},"modified":"2021-07-30T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:20:18","slug":"jawahar-navodaya-vidyalaya-students-detect-asteroids-under-khagolshala-asteroid-search-campaign-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jawahar-navodaya-vidyalaya-students-detect-asteroids-under-khagolshala-asteroid-search-campaign-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students detect asteroids under Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1739849\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students have detected Eight Asteroids as part of the Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign(KASC) <\/strong>is an initiative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/manas-app-a-mental-health-digital-platform\/\">Office of Principal Scientific Adviser, <\/a>Government of India, and SPACE Foundation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The campaign <\/strong>is the India chapter of an international student research program that has got students involved in the search for asteroids.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the campaign, <\/strong>high-quality astronomical data sets are distributed to students through the <strong>PANSTARRS <\/strong>telescope for analysis and identification of asteroids.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The students then analyze<\/strong> the data using software, which then leads to potential discoveries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>These observations <\/strong>feed into the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-makes-nasas-new-spacecraft-nea-scout-special\/\">Near-Earth Object(NEO) <\/a>data being compiled by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL).<\/li>\n<li><strong>As part of the campaign,<\/strong> Space India has established Khagolshala Astronomy and Space Education Labs (ASELs) across 20 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas till date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Asteroids:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Asteroids <\/strong>are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. Although asteroids orbit the Sun-like planets, they are much smaller than planets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There are lots of asteroids<\/strong> in our solar system. Most of them live in the main asteroid belt\u2014a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About PANSTARRS Telescope:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Panoramic Survey Telescope<\/strong> and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is a telescope located in Hawaii, US.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The telescope <\/strong>consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis. It is also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already-detected objects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About SPACE Foundation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SPACE Foundation <\/strong>was established in 2001. It aims to popularize science and inculcate scientific temperament among the masses, especially students in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students have detected Eight Asteroids as part of the Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021. About Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign: Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign(KASC) is an initiative of the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, and SPACE Foundation. The campaign is the India chapter of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jawahar-navodaya-vidyalaya-students-detect-asteroids-under-khagolshala-asteroid-search-campaign-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students detect asteroids under Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704698649},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}