Talk:Asteroid Zoo

Possibly incorrect information

According to this source and this source, Asteroid Zoo is run by Zooniverse and Planetary Resources, and simply use the images from Catalina Sky Survey, which makes the first sentence in the article incorrect. "study the potential uses and advantages of people looking through the images over computers" - that doesn't make sense to me. What's the point of studying people studying images over computers? You can also make a mention of the fact that Asteroid Zoo was featured on Kickstarter. Thanks, --ceradon (talk • contribs) 01:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I did a bad job of explaining it, but it was mentioned on talk.asteroidzoo.org that one of the purposes of asteroid zoo was to study the usefulness of humans studying images, versus computers; namely being able to tell asteroids from static and seeing objects the computers would have otherwise ignored. exoplanetaryscience (talk) 01:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Made an edit. You should probably add a cite to the final paragraph of the article. If that's done, you can remove the {{more footnotes}} template. Cheers, --ceradon (talk • contribs) 01:41, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Current status

The current Asteroid Zoo status indication of "Ongoing" on the main page seems a bit misleading to me. The Asteroid Zoo projects is not really active anymore. One problem here is that there is some ambiguity on its exact state (at least in my view). On one hand its called 'paused', and on the other hand it called 'Archived'. Both used terms have a somewhat different meanings to me. MvGulik (talk) 08:53, 9 November 2016 (UTC)