By Robin Young | Manager, Donor Relations
Asteroids and comets have impacted Earth before – with disastrous results. It’s not a matter of if it will happen again, but when it will happen again.
Our Shoemaker NEO Grants program has been funding amateur and professional astronomers in their search for, and study of, threatening near-Earth objects for 20 years. These grants go to astronomers who work tirelessly to find, track and characterize NEOs. To date, we have awarded $323,000 to 39 astronomers in 16 countries – and their consistent results demonstrate the value of your investment.
As we come to the end of our current 2-year cycle for Shoemaker NEO Grants, we are closing our Global Giving project of Detecting Potentially Dangerous Asteroids & Comets in preparation for our next round during 2017 and 2018. We know you may want to keep up and be informed of the next round of Shoemaker NEO grant winners and their discoveries. Visit us at:
This May, we’re a primary sponsor of the international Planetary Defense Conference in Tokyo, where we help to bring together the world’s experts in all aspects of protecting Earth from asteroid and comet impact. There, we will make an additional call for NEO hunters at the conference, which will be broadcast worldwide.
You have helped provide small but powerful grants to talented astronomers, who have the determination, patience and desire to search our skies over the days, weeks and months to help us understand the NEOs within our path. Come with us, and see what else they find!
Thank you, so very much, for your interest in and backing of planetary defense and in The Planetary Society’s Shoemaker NEO program.
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