MiMi Aung

Credit: NASA/JPL
Occupation: Engineer & Project Manager
Year born: 1968
Research Areas: Deep Space Exploration
Occupation: Engineer & Project Manager
Year born: 1968
Research Areas: Deep Space Exploration
Occupation: Mathematician & Engineer
Year born: 1921
Research Areas: Aerospace Engineering, Aerodynamics
Occupation: Astronomer, Mathematician, Scientist, Teacher
Year born: 1571
Research Areas: Planetary motion, optics, geometry
Aimed at pupils aged 11-14 this workshop encourages pupils to ‘blink’ between several images, taken by the Liverpool Telescope, in a bid to find asteroids. The activity can then be extended to them using the LT Image software functionality to calculate the speed of the asteroids, or simply a discussion on what asteroids are and how we track them.
You can download the individual files needed for this activity below, or this zip file (53mb) contains them all.
If an object is moving, it has momentum. This is what keeps an object moving in the same direction. The more momentum something has, the harder it is to change its direction or bring it to a stop.