Helping developers against asteroids that could threaten our planet, asks NASA for the Asteroid Data Hunter.
Asteroid Data Hunter offers 35.000 dollars to developers who will be able to develop algorithms that will demonstrate asteroids in images from terrestrial telescopes. The solution that will emerge should increase the asteroid tracking rate and minimize the number of incorrect markings.
Also, said "asteroid hunting code" should be able to ignore "flaws" in the data and be able to "run" on all systems computers.
"Protecting the planet from the threat of an asteroid collision means we must first know where they are," said Ghen Gotic, the program's manager, according to a BBC report.
"By expanding the search for asteroids, we commit ourselves to the potential of innovating people, creators and scientists everywhere, to face this global challenge."
Currently, it is estimated that only the 1% of objects in orbit around the Sun are being watched, according to Planetary Resources, which is working with NASA as part of the competition.
Speaking at the SXSW conference on Tuesday, Gustatic and Jason Kessler explained how the US space agency uses a combination of crowdourcing and prizes to boost its efforts in the field of asteroid localization.
In the presentation, the example of the dinosaurs, which disappeared due to the asteroid fall in the Gulf of Mexico before 66 millions of years, was used in the fifth case of "mass extinction" on our planet.
"Mass extinction is something that eliminates 75% of species on the planet within two millions of years" he noted, pointing out that compared to the dinosaurs, the human species has not been the "ruler" of the planet for a very long time.
As the Guardian mentions, the question, according to Gustatich, is whether we are smart enough to avoid the fate of dinosaurs.
The Asteroid Data Hunter starts at 17 March and will last until mid-August.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
