Using Data for Asteroid Mining - Daynan Crull

We talked about:

• Daynan’s background
• Astronomy vs cosmology
• Applications of data science and machine learning in astronomy
• Determining signal vs noise
• What the data looks like in astronomy
• Determining the features of an object in space
• Ground truth for space objects
• Why water is an important resource in the space economy
• Other useful resources that can be found in asteroids
• Sources of asteroids
• The data team at an asteroid mining company
• Open datasets for hobbyists
• Mission and hardware design for asteroid mining
• Partnerships and hires

Links: 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daynan/
• We're looking for a Sr Data Engineer: https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/karmanplus/jobs/4027128101?gh_jid=4027128101
• Minor Planet Center: https://minorplanetcenter.net/- JPL Horizons has a nice set of APIs for accessing data related to small bodies (including asteroids): https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api.html
• ESA has NEODyS: https://newton.spacedys.com/neodys  
• IRSA catalog that contains image and catalog data related to the WISE/NEOWISE data (and other infrared platforms): https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/frontpage/
• NASA also has an archive of data collected from their various missions, including a node related to small bodies: https://pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/
• Sub-node directly related to asteroids: https://sbn.psi.edu/pds/
• Size, Mass, and Density of Asteroids (SiMDA) is a nice catalog of observed asteroid attributes (and an indication of how small our sample size is!): https://astro.kretlow.de/?SiMDA
• The source survey data, several are useful for asteroids: Pan-STARRS (https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/PANSTARRS)

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