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There are almost half a million known asteroids - we know their orbit in the solar system (by measuring their position at different times) and their approximate size (by measuring their brightness and knowing their distance). To learn more about their physical properties, other observing techniques have to be used. One of them is '''''[[wikipedia:Photometry_(astronomy)|photometry]]''''' - the measure of brightness variations caused by rotation. By this technique, rotation periods were derived for several thousands of asteroids.

Asteroids@home will establish physical properties of asteroids in our solar system ~~and~~ publish the results in peer-reviewed journals and then make them publicly available in the '''''[https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/asteroids/browse DAMIT]''''' database. Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (DAMIT) is providing the astronomical community access to reliable and up-to-date physical models of asteroids - i.e., their shapes, rotation periods, and spin axis directions.

Asteroids@home will establish physical properties of asteroids in our solar system, publish the results in peer-reviewed journals and then make them publicly available in the '''''[https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/asteroids/browse DAMIT]''''' database. Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (DAMIT) is providing the astronomical community access to reliable and up-to-date physical models of asteroids - i.e., their shapes, rotation periods, and spin axis directions.

== Methods ==

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 There are almost half a million known asteroids - we know their orbit in the solar system (by measuring their position at different times) and their approximate size (by measuring their brightness and knowing their distance). To learn more about their physical properties, other observing techniques have to be used. One of them is '''''[[wikipedia:Photometry_(astronomy)|photometry]]''''' - the measure of brightness variations caused by rotation. By this technique, rotation periods were derived for several thousands of asteroids.
-Asteroids@home will establish physical properties of asteroids in our solar system and publish the results in peer-reviewed journals and then make them publicly available in the '''''[https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/asteroids/browse DAMIT]''''' database. Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (DAMIT) is providing the astronomical community access to reliable and up-to-date physical models of asteroids - i.e., their shapes, rotation periods, and spin axis directions.
+Asteroids@home will establish physical properties of asteroids in our solar system, publish the results in peer-reviewed journals and then make them publicly available in the '''''[https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/asteroids/browse DAMIT]''''' database. Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (DAMIT) is providing the astronomical community access to reliable and up-to-date physical models of asteroids - i.e., their shapes, rotation periods, and spin axis directions.
 == Methods ==