Let’s Code to Save the World

Or at least be an Asteroid Hunter in NASA’s First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest

NASA/JPL-Caltech

If you like coding as much as you like astronomy, and want to know what is around us, there is an opportunity to make a difference.

The goal is to develop better algorithms to identify asteroids using image analysis. So you can write a code that will help prevent unwanted surprises. ( and maybe have great surprises by discovering something new :D )

You may want to read the official post and/or see the video below.

NASA’s Asteroid Grand Challenge
[Video Presentation]

NASA Maps Dangerous Asteroids That May Threaten Earth

You can find more info here about this image .

This NASA graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), numbering over 1,400 as of early 2013. Shown here is a close-up of the orbits overlaid on the orbits of Earth and other inner planets.

If I write some code, it will be on my github. @douglasmiranda