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The "Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques" (DAMIT) provides the astronomical community access to reliable and up-to-date physical models of asteroids - i.e., their shapes, rotation periods, and spin axis directions.

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 must 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.

There are almost 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 must 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 tens of thousands of asteroids.

== Methods ==

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== Project team / Sponsors ==

Asteroids@home is based at [https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/index_en.html '''''Astronomical Institute'''''], [https://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-1.html '''''Charles University in Prague'''''] in cooperation with Radim Vančo from CzechNationalTeam. The project is directed by Josef Durech.

Asteroids@home is based at [https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/index_en.html '''''Astronomical Institute'''''], [https://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-1.html '''''Charles University in Prague'''''] in cooperation with Radim Vančo from CzechNationalTeam. Georgi Vidinski is the software developer. The project is directed by Josef Durech.

== Scientific results ==

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 The "Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques" (DAMIT) provides the astronomical community access to reliable and up-to-date physical models of asteroids - i.e., their shapes, rotation periods, and spin axis directions.
-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 must 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.
+There are almost 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 must 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 tens of thousands of asteroids.
 == Methods ==
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 == Project team / Sponsors ==
-Asteroids@home is based at [https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/index_en.html '''''Astronomical Institute'''''], [https://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-1.html '''''Charles University in Prague'''''] in cooperation with Radim Vančo from CzechNationalTeam. The project is directed by Josef Durech.
+Asteroids@home is based at [https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/index_en.html '''''Astronomical Institute'''''], [https://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-1.html '''''Charles University in Prague'''''] in cooperation with Radim Vančo from CzechNationalTeam. Georgi Vidinski is the software developer. The project is directed by Josef Durech.
 == Scientific results ==