Hubble Asteroid Hunter

ESA Data Science Team

Sandor Kruk @sandorkruk

Sandor is a Research Fellow at the European Space Agency working on space data science with the upcoming Euclid mission, Galaxy Zoo, and other citizen science projects.

Pablo García Martín @PabloGM

Pablo is a PhD student in astronomy at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and is leading the identification of the asteroids in the images from this project.

Marcel Popescu

Marcel is a planetary scientist and staff astronomer at the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.

Steven Dillmann @stevendi99

Steven is an engineering student at Imperial College London and a summer intern at ESA, studying the impact of artificial satellites on Hubble Space Telescope observations.

Max Mahlke @maxmahlke

Max is a Research Scientist at the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Madrid, working on data mining surveys for solar system objects.

Bruno Merín @bmerin

Bruno is the head of ESAC Science Data Centre of the European Space Agency at ESAC, near Madrid, Spain. His interests are in space data science: exploiting data from ESA’s Space Science missions, scientific software and usability of user interfaces. He is part of the team who developed the science discovery portal ESASky

Ross Thomson

Ross is Solutions Architect at Google, Pittsburgh, and leads the machine learning solutions in Google Cloud.

Samet Karadag

Samet is Cloud Solutions Architect at Google, Amsterdam, and leads the machine learning solutions in Google Cloud.

Javier Durán @digitaljavier

Javier is a senior data engineer at ESAC Science Data Centre in Madrid, working on the European Hubble Space Telescope archives.

Deborah Baines @dbaines

Debbie is the Astronomy Archives Science Lead at ESAC Science Data Centre in Madrid and also part of the team who developed the science discovery portal ESASky.

Elena Racero

Elena is a software engineer at the ESAC Science Data Centre in Madrid and part of the ESASky team. She is the principal architect of the ESASky Solar System Objects pipeline (which outputs the images and positions used in this project).

Fabrizio Giordano @fabrig

Fabrizio is the head software engineer for ESASky at the ESAC Science Data Centre in Madrid, and co-developer of the ESASky Solar System Objects pipeline.

Guido De Marchi

Guido is an Astronomer and the Archives Head Scientist at the European Space Agency at ESTEC, in the Netherlands. He coordinates the scientific content of all the interfaces to the data from ESA Space Science Missions.

Benoît Carry

Benoît is a planetary scientist working at the Lagrange laboratory of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) and the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides (IMCCE), Paris Observatory. Asteroid 8467 was named after him to recognize his contributions to the understanding of these objects.

Jerôme Berthier

Jerôme is a software engineer working at the "Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides" (IMCCE), at the Paris Observatory. He developed, together with his collaborator Benoît Carry, ephemcc, the computer code that allowed to calculate precise Solar System Object positions as a function of time, which was the core of the ESASky Solar System Objects pipeline used to identified the images of this project.

Enrique Solano

Enrique is an astrophysicist and head of the Spanish Virtual Observatory (SVO) organization, which pioneered the identification of asteroids in astronomical images with a citizen science project based on Ground based telescopes and Virtual Observatory tools.

Belén Lopez Marti @lopezmartib
Belén is an astronomer, educator and science communicator at the ESAC Science Data Centre, supporting the ESASky portal and editor of the ESDC Newsletter.

Zooniverse Team

Of course none of this would even be possible without the fantastic work of the Zooniverse team in developing the citizen science platform!