Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them. - The New York Times

Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed space rocks, helping to detect objects that could one day imperil Earth.

Still, calculating thousands of test orbits for thousands of potential asteroids is a humongous number-crunching task. But the advent of cloud computing vast computational power and data storage dist… [+1562 chars]

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