Too Many Asteroids To Keep Track Of?

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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Distributed Telescope...

[slashkitty]

Now there is a distributed system that would help out this project. Granted, you need some hardware, but it shouldn't be that expensive. Those computerized Meade telescope like this one, aren't that expensive. Now if they could be centrally controlled and linked, very high resolution images could be rendered? I bet there are already some people set up with this. Any projects started? What are they tracking these days?