A Pint of Science with NEOROCKS
Happy to announce the participation of our Neorocker Davide Perna at the “Pint of Science Festival, finaly back live between 9-11 May 2022. An exciting event, across 23 Italian cities and across the world, where researchers chat about science over a pint. Davide will be at Flanagan's Frascati talk about Asteroids and Life on Earth: Past, Present and Future (with a shout
May Newsletter from NEOCC
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released its May newsletter. Download it here
Neorocks4Kids Polish Version
Our Neorocks4Kids videos now have Polish Subtitles. Calling all you Polish mini-Neorockers: Here you can watch Introducing asteroids, here Naming the asteroids and here all about Telescopes! Happy watching! Miłego oglądania!
World Space Week
Here at NEOROCKS, we are loving the World Space Week and this year's celebration of Women in Space. Among the many events, have a listen to the interview with Maruška Strah, Executive Director of World Space Week Association and mentor at UNOOSA’s Space4Women programme. NEOROCKS supports women in space from an early age, starting with our young mini-Neorockers! Photo from official poster of
NEOROCKS @ European Researchers’ Night
NEOROCKS was out and about for the European Researchers' Night! Have a look at the fantastic "Professoroni" lesson in Perugia (minute 1:22:21), with our very own Ettori Perozzi (ASI) and an unusual group of students (in Italian language).
Join the European Researchers’ Night
Tonight is the European Researchers' Night. We are talking about a Europe-wide public event, taking place in 29 countries! The European Researchers' Night gives us a chance to learn from research projects across Europe and beyond. Find the events near you here and follow the European Researchers' Night on Facebook and Twitter Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash
NEOROCKS at Superquark!
Superquark is the most popular and respected scientific outreach TV programme in Italy. It introduces the general public to all sorts of scientific topics explaining scientific facts with an easy to understand language, real footage and renders. On August 25th, the episode looked at the importance of research on asteroids and of space missions that will be launched to deflect their
Let’s hunt asteroids!
Do you think that spotting asteroids is an easy task? Really? Have a go at the game available onto the website of our partner Neospace: https://www.neospace.pl/asteroid-day/. You’ll see 5 pairs of photos found by the Yasutani program and your task will be to identify an asteroid within plenty of stars. Use the 1410 code to log in and have fun! Photo by Greg
Asteroids at the AstroValberg festival
From the 9th to the 11th of August 2021, the AstroValberg departmental festival returns for its second edition. This year's event explores the solar system with a rich programme: night-time walks, sky observation evenings, creative workshops, and many conferences… including the one of our Neorocker, Benoit Carry (Lagrange laboratory of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur -OCA), on "How to
Neorocks 4 Kids – on-line!
For Asteroid Day 2021, join us for the launch of Neorocks4Kids! Neorocks4Kids uses 3 short videos to share our project with children, the next generation, the mini-Neorockers! With a little help from own mini-neorocker Clara, our Neorockers will tell us about asteroids, about how to spot and name an asteroid and about the telescopes we need to do it. Tune in to #Neorocks4Kids