From today, you can help NASA discover new asteroids. At South by Southwest today, the space agency released the application Asteroid Data Hunter, developed in cooperation με την μεταλλευτική εταιρεία διαστήματος Planetary Resources σε έναν online competition. 
The software can run on any Mac or PC and soon on Linux. He will be able to accept images from telescopes. Immediately after that, an algorithm will run to determine what celestial bodies are moving in the way the asteroids move. In this way, you will be able to contribute directly to the work of the space service.
Its new algorithm NASA, is the main achievement of the application, as it is reported to be able to identify 15% more asteroids in the asteroid zone (located between Mars and Jupiter) than all previous solutions. The algorithm not only identifies potential asteroids, but also tries to match them to current known objects near the Earth.
With the free app, any amateur astronomer can analyze the images he will receive from NASA's or his own telescopes.
You can download application from here.
