WISE Work Group Area

A place for the HOU-WISE developers/TRAs

HOU-WISE 1-day Workshop Outline (revised 2009 July 12)

WISE HOU EPO Timeline

Prior work on HOU website:

The Classic HOU Asteroid Research page (Tim Spuck and Hughes Pack)
HOU Research page (general)

Tom Morin's work

Investigation: Determining Period of Rotation Of An “Astro-spud" - PDF (200Kb) - MS Word (2.6 Mb)

Alan Gould's work

A Changing Cosmos high school HOU course.
Introduces HOU Image Processing Software and sets context for asteroid unit(s).
Includes Parallax Investigations in chapter 4.
Also, Jupiter's Moons and Asteroid section in chapter 7, Planet-Star Systems.

Rich Lohman's Work

Parallax Investigations in chapter 4 of A Changing Cosmos.
Reading: Using Wien’s Law for Measuring the Temperature of an Asteroid.
SOFIA activities related to basic IR understanding. ...includes kind of a version of Herschel's original experiment...under Section 3, "Sensing the Invisible".

Carl Pennypacker's Work

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 From: Carl Pennypacker
To: Alan Gould, Steve Carpenter Subject: Re: Tom Morin's work
This experiment, which went amazingly well, was done on the morning of the last day [of the 2008 HOU conference]. I think Steve as a movie of the event and set up, will come to you soon. Here are some details:
1) Sun substitute: a fluorescent lamp
2) Asteroid: a potato, stuck on a styrofoam cup with maybe a toothpick.
3) Rotation system: me rotating it as regularly as possible -- each tick mark is approximately one second.
4) Purpose: show asteroid light curves, and also show the characteristic double peak light curve, deriving from the potato being oblate.

Vivian Hoette's work

From: Vivian L. Hoette To: Kathy Schmidt, Alan Gould
Subject: Asteroids - sets and links to blind resources Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008
I have been doing some work with the asteroid images that we took to go with asteroid models published by JPL.

Resources:
http://analyzer.depaul.edu/see_project/orbits/default.htm
http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/outreach/activities/Explorations/images/Asteroids/

I updated Toutatis and Kleopatra each of which have a hand-held model based on radar. There is a movie in the Kleopatra set.

...we are making tactiles of these for the blind students on Monday. The toutatis ones add together nicely in all the HOU software. The Kleopatra images are too bright to add nicely. I should actually divide the counts to make that work well in the old HOU. But have to stop working today.

Also, Meghan and I took images of Nemausa (no model available) just this week. Those images are also on the above website for images.

Tim Spuck's work

Files for movies: FITS (zip file 10 Mb; 66 images) -|- JPG (zip file 880 Kb; 66 images)

Patrick Miller's work:

INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL SEARCH COLLABORATION - http://iasc.hsutx.edu/

Includes

Astrometrica - Astrometrica software, installation guide, & instructions with practice image sets.
Asteroid Search Campaign - 32" Prime Focus Telescope - Astronomical Research Institute (Robert Holmes)
School folders with current image sets to be analyzed.
NEO Confirmation Campaign - School folders with current image sets to be analyzed.
MPC Report Processing - Procedure for the initial processing of MPC reports.
MPC Orbital Database -Discoveries & Observations - List of recent discoveries by participating schools.
IASC Staff - Staff of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration.

Notes on Plans - Jan 2009

Development of lesson materials featuring the use of IR bandwidths to calculate NEO temperatures, diameters, and albedos
- R. Loman quadratic method for using Wein's Law
- Look at Changing Cosmos -- parallax in Chapter 4 (J. Kolena to solve the off-ecliptic problem)
- B. Mendez feedback from mtg. and simulated WISE images; need a table that relates differences in counts between the WISE filters
- J. Bosch can assist with preparing the materials into a format for use by the teachers
Searching for and confirming asteroids found in the WISE asteroid pipeline, and making sure they find all of the asteroids (i.e., taking time to study a few asteroids well)
- H. Devore special project perhaps using archived data
Development of Astrometrica to build 3rd order plate solutions for image taken IR bandwidths -- Yes, the reason would to have Astrometrica measure WISE images
- P. Miller will handle
Use of the MPC ephemeris calculator to determine NEO distances from Earth
Check on Find_Orb to calculate the distance and MPC Emphemeris Calculator (P. Miller)
Use of Internet-accessible 30" at ARI to measure NEO light curves (HOU scope from Los Alamos)
- Funds sent to B. Holmes (ARI) to get scope from Los Alamos to Argonne
G. Reagan and Internet-based telescope projects
- C. Pennypacker will keep P. Roche in loop on discussions and plans
Use of IASC to analyze ARI follow-on images of NEOs in visible bandwidths to make confirmation measures for the MPC and original discoveries of Main Belt asteroids
- Done
IASC can handle (October 2009 through May 2010) asteroid search and NEO confirmation campaigns for all 100 participating schools
- Done
IASC can provide an Internet-based pre- and post-surveys for teachers and/or students.
- K. Davis is handling.

Jan Ward's / Glenn Reagan's work

NASAWISEAsteroidOverview.ppt
Doomsday Scenario: 99942 Apophis Asteroid (MS Word) using JPL small body database browser
Light Curve Simulation - Asteroid 22 Kalliope (MS Word); Answer doc
Older docs...
- Manual on asteroids (OLD 2008; MS word)
- Powerpoint file about asteroids (OLD-2008)

Bryan Mendez's work

WISE poster (pdf 2.6 Mb)

Jenifer Perazzo/Steve Carpenter's work

Kevin McCarron/Sharon Carr

Harlan DeVore

Lee Ann Hennig