From mid-March to late-May 2010, a group of 5 schools from the US, working in partnership with 5 UK schools, will be using the 2-m Faulkes telescopes from the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) to take follow-up images of NEOs, recently discovered by the NASA WISE spacecraft. The students will prepare the reports containing the confirmation information that are submitted to the Minor Planet Center (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard) . The follow-up images will provide important confirmation information to the MPC and the NASA Near-Earth Object Program (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

Details of this exciting programme can be found here.

• Course Creator: Sarah Roberts
• Course Leader: Lothar Kurtze
• Course Leader: Sarah Roberts