Charles "Pete" Conrad Astronomy Awards Act

This bill would establish a formal awards program to recognize amateur astronomers who successfully discover new asteroids. Named after the late Apollo 12 astronaut, the Charles "Pete" Conrad Astronomy Awards would be administered by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to honor non-professional contributions to space science. By incentivizing private citizens to track and identify celestial bodies, the program aims to increase the amount of data available to the government for monitoring objects that pass near Earth.