‘Ice Hunters’ Help Search for New Horizons Flyby Targets

The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, using the Ice Hunters website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the first flyby of the Pluto system, and is then capable of exploring additional bodies still farther out in the Kuiper Belt.

Through this citizen science project, the public can help scientists search through specially obtained telescopic images for currently unknown objects in the Kuiper Belt. Along the way, they will also discover variable stars and asteroids.

http://www.icehunters.org/