Too Many Asteroids To Keep Track Of?

Posted by timothy on Monday October 22, 2001 @01:25AM from the don'tcha-get-three-lives-anyhow dept.

BLAMM! writes: "Space.com has an article explaining how the increase in asteroid detection has outstripped our ability to examine the data. And the problem is only going to get worse. A distributed workload is mentioned as a solution, but only among a few other "astereroid hunter" organizations. It's clear that an abundance of data isn't the only problem, but perhaps an @home type distributed solution would help? Anyone have a contact inside Seti@home? Looking for aliens is cool, but checking asteroids for NEOs is a real-world, in-your-face kind of problem."

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Re:Distributed Telescope... by PD · 2001-10-22 06:24 · Score: 4, Informative

There was an article in the August 2000 Sky and Telescope mag about Automated Asteroid Hunting.

Here's the blurb from the online index:

Automatic Asteroid Hunting
Off-the-shelf software can help your telescope and computer do all the work of looking for minor planets.
COMPUTERS IN ASTRONOMY | By Jeff Medkeff

Here are other links:

software for telescope control

more links to robotic scopes

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