The Daily Minor Planet is a citizen science project run by the Zooniverse and The Catalina Sky Survey with a funding grant from NASA, to use citizen science volunteer classifications to discover asteroids with recent data from the G96 Mount Lemmon Survey 1.52 m (60 in) cassegrain reflector telescope. The main objective of the project is to search for undiscovered asteroids in order to protect the planet by locating potentially harmful Near-Earth asteroids.
The main-belt asteroid 227711 Dailyminorplanet was named in honor of thousands of volunteers who have participated in this project.
The Daily Minor Planet Zooniverse project now has two workflows of data for volunteers to analyze with the inclusion of images taken by the 2.3-meter Bok Telescope (V00) at Kitt Peak National Observatory as of March 2026.
List of Notable Discoveries
Asteroid Designation Orbit or Family Semi-majoraxis (AU) Eccentricityof orbit Diameter(m) Discovery date Refs 2023 VN3 Apollo 1.2166279 0.2142180 26.17 2023-11-05 2023 TW Aten 0.8458886 0.2912585 9.30 2023-10-04 2024 SN3 Aten 0.9150081 0.1096303 11.02 2024-09-22 2025 HD3 Aten 0.8316599 0.4446249 23.78 2025-04-24 2025 KU1 Apollo 1.0738396 0.0810991 15.10 2025-05-22 2026 KS3 Amor 1.6766994 0.3666147 62.51 2026-05-23
See also Backyard Worlds Active Asteroids (citizen science project) Disk Detective Galaxy Zoo Planet Hunters
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