#asteroid data hunter

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Search The Skies for Objects Out to get You

Search The Skies for Objects Out to get You

This is how science helps find asteroids, frame by frame. Now you can help them, too. Image from the European Space Agency.

One of my favorite sites, TheVerge.com, covered this year’s SXSW (South By SouthWest) activities. They posted this article about an application NASA and Planetary Resources released during SXSW for public downloading. The application, called Asteroid Data Hunter(ADH-not the…

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NASA offers $55,000 prize to citizen scientists helping pinpoint more asteroids

NASA offers $55,000 prize to citizen scientists helping pinpoint more asteroids

HONG KONG: NASA challenged the public and amateur scientists delivered, coming up with a software application that can help identify more asteroids, some of which endanger our planet. The US space agency issued a call to citizen scientists last year called “The Asteroid Data Hunter challenge” and offering a $55,000 prize. The winning software formula can help identify significantly more new…

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The Asteroid Data Hunter App Is Now Available to the Public

NASA released a new desktop application that will allow users at home to help identify new asteroids. The Asteroid Data Hunter uses an algorithm that increases detection sensitivity and minimizes the number of false positives in the images captured by ground-based telescopes.

This application uses images provided by the Catalina Sky Survey and data provided by the Minor Planet Center. In addition to using the provided data and images, amateur astronomers may analyze their own images with the application.

Currently, the application is available for Windows and Mac, with Linux becoming available soon. To download the desktop application, visit topcoder.com/asteroids/.

Image Credit: NASA