Public relations

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• Naming of asteroid (187700) Zagreb (April 13, 2009)
  -> press release [pdf, 324 KB]

 

Educational experience and organizing committees

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• Coordinator of the Visnjan School of Astronomy 2016 & group leader of the "Astronomical spectroscopy group"
  
  
• Coordinator of the Visnjan School of Astronomy 2016
  

• Coordinator of the Visnjan School of Astronomy 2015
  
  
• Organizing committee member of The Brijuni Conference 2014, August 25-30, 2014, National Park Brijuni, Croatia
  
  
• Coordinator of the Visnjan School of Astronomy 2014
  
  
• Coordinator of the Visnjan School of Astronomy 2013
  
  
• Coordinator of the Visnjan School of Astronomy 2012
  
  
• Visnjan School of Astronomy 2011, group leader of  the "Asteroid photometry group"
  
  
• Visnjan School of Astronomy 2010, group leader of  the "ELF/VLF Ionosphere group"
  
  
• Visnjan School of Astronomy 2009, group leader of  the "ELF/VLF Ionosphere group"
  
  
• Visnjan School of Astronomy 2008, group leader of  the "Asteroid astrometry and photometry group"
  
  
• Visnjan School of Astronomy 2007, group leader of  the "NEO astrometry group"
  
  
• Visnjan School of Astronomy 2006, group leader of  the "Visnjan Observatory Robotic Telescope group"

Talks & public outreach

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• Public talk: "The definition of a planet”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (April 17, 2018)
  
  
• Public talk: "Asteroids - threat from space”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb
  (April 10, 2018)
  
  
• Seminar talk: “Aerospace sector - a drive for research, innovation and the economy”, National reference group for Space, Zagreb (March 19, 2018)
  
  
• Public talk: "The Sun”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (February 6, 2018) 
  
  
• Public talk: „Impacts in our Solar System“, Tomislavov dom, Nature Park Medvednica (December 16, 2017)
  
  
• Public talk: "Asteroids - big bluff or real threat from space?”, Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Zagreb (November 16, 2017)
  

• Seminar talk: “Ideas for student projects in astronomy”, Education and Teacher Training Agency, Zagreb (July 6, 2017)

• Public talk: "The Sun”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (March 28, 2017)

• Public talk: "Asteroids - The threat from space”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb
  (March 14, 2017)

• Public talk: "The definition of a planet”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (March 7, 2017)

• Public talk: "Impacts in our Solar System”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb
  (March 29, 2016)
  
  
• Public talk: "Why isn't Pluto a planet anymore?”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb
  (March 15, 2016)

• Public talk: "Asteroids - big bluff or real threat?”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (February 3, 2016)
  
  
• Public talk: "The Sun – internal structure and its activity”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (December 1, 2015)
  
  
• Public talk: "Exploring the Solar system", KIC Nikola Tesla, Udbina, Croatia
  (May 23, 2015)
  
  
• Public talk: "The Sun – internal structure and its activity”, Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (January 13, 2015)
  
  
• Public talk: "Impact statistics of Small bodies of the Solar system", Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (February 11, 2014)
  
  
• Public talk: "Impacts in our Solar System", Dubrovnik, Croatia (November 08, 2013)
  
  
• Astronomy popularisation event with public sky observations, Sinj, Split & Dubrovnik, Croatia (November 04 - 10, 2013)
  
  
• Public talk: "The Kuiper belt objects", Ekonomska i birotehnicka skola Bjelovar, Bjelovar, Croatia (March 21, 2013)
  
  
• Public talk: "Small Bodies of the Solar System ", Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (February 05, 2013)
  
  
• Public talk: "The Kuiper belt - Why isn't Pluto a planet anymore?", Dom mladih Skenderija, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (April 13, 2012)
  
  
• Astronomy popularisation event with public sky observations, Dubrovnik, Croatia (March 30 - April 01, 2012)
  
  
• Astronomy popularisation event with public sky observations, Dubrovnik, Croatia (January 12 - 14, 2011)
  
  
• Public talk: "Expedition La Sagra", Visnjan Observatory, Visnjan (August 22, 2007)
  
  
• Public talk: "The new definition of a planet", Zagreb Observatory, Zagreb (June 06, 2007)
  

Popular articles

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• Cikota S., “Most stable quasi-satellite of Earth: 2016 HO3”, Covjek i Svemir, no. 3, year LIX (April 2017)
  

• Cikota S., «Swiss Space Systems in Croatia», Covjek i Svemir, no. 4, year LVII
  (May 2015)
  
  
• Cikota S., «The Chelyabinsk impact - an extraordinary event or just statistics?», Covjek i Svemir, no. 4, year LV (May 2013)
  
  
• Cikota S., «Jupiter impacts», Covjek i Svemir, no. 2, year LIII (January 2011)
  
  
• Cikota S., «Gravitational waves and project LISA», Covjek i Svemir, no. 4, year LII (July 2010)
  
  
• Cikota S., «Impact of 2008 TC3», Covjek i Svemir, no. 3, year LI (April 2009)
  
  
• Cikota S., «The discovery of the Martian Trojan 2007 NS2», Interstellarum, no. 55 (January 2008)
  
  
• Cikota S., «The Sun», Priroda no. 934, (May 2005)
  
  
• Cikota S., «Meteor showers», Priroda, no. 931, (February 2005)
  
  
• Cikota S., «Asteroids», Priroda, no. 929, (December 2004)
  
  
• Cikota S., «The Moon surface», Meridijani, no. 77, (September 2003)
  
  
• Cikota S., «The worldwide biggest telescopes», Meridijani, no. 72, (February 2003)

 

* «Interstellarum» is a scientific-popular journal written in German; «Meridijani», «Priroda» and "Covjek i Svemir" in Croatian language.